On the northern side of the border, Hurd's nationalist identity has grown over the last two years, a time when the group did not record any new songs.

He discusses the problems for an artist of a region with little in the way of truly indigenous forms, and with little national or nationalist identity.

It sees Judaism primarily as a religion, rather than an ethnic, cultural or nationalist identity.

The state was officially opposed to these groups because of their strong association with nationalist identities.

It publicly stressed this secular nationalist identity, and denied accusations that it was a sectarian Christian organization.

Hay would later build on this idea, in combination with a Stalinist definition of nationalist identity, to argue that homosexuals constituted a "cultural minority".

The promoted the Stuart cause, which was an intrinsic feature of Irish Catholic nationalist identity until at least 1760.

"I think it is done more to assert nationalist identity than for religion," he added.

During this period, up until 1931, Spain attempted to create an imagined nationalist identity of its citizens.

It is an important part of Irish nationalist identity, marking a cultural distance between Irish people and the rest of Europe.