What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.
Rocky Took a Lover extensively to promote the band's third album. In early 2008, the song featured on a Dublin Bus television advertising campaign. A special website—www.rockytookalover.com—was created by the band for the release of the song, featuring blogs written by the characters of Rocky and Adrianna. The BBC described it and previous single "Flame" as "two of the finest pieces of music written on this island". The band performed the song when they appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on 17 March 2008. The "Irish Independent" has said that "Rocky Took a Lover" "truly come(s) alive in concert". Rocky Took a