"Nationality" is a poem by Australian poet Mary Gilmore.
The poem examines the conflicting emotions raised by war: the love of one's own people, and the desire for an international sense of brotherhood.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states that in this poem Mary Gilmore "while conceding the need for internationalism, acknowledges the pre-eminent claims of race and blood".
[3] In her collection of critical essays on Australian literature, Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works, Jane Gleeson-White found the poem is "a concentration of intense and conflicting emotion in two stanzas."
He went on to conclude that even "if the concept of 'nationalism' were to disappear from the human vocabulary, we'd still need Gilmore's poem to remind us of what it had been.