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The making of modern Irish history : revisionism and the revisionist controversy

Author: David George Boyce; Alan O'Day
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Revisionism has been an important issue in Irish history for several years, as varying partisan accounts of the Irish past have been rewritten and 'rescued' by journalists and historians of different political persuasions. This textbook brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and examines its  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David George Boyce; Alan O'Day
ISBN: 041509819X 9780415098199 041512171X 9780415121712
OCLC Number: 32923453
Description: viii, 245 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : 'Revisionism' and the 'revisionist controversy' / D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day --
Eighteenth-century Ireland / S.J. Connolly --
The union of Ireland and Britain, 1801-1921 / Liam Kennedy and David S. Johnson --
Revisionism and Irish history : the great famine --
The national question, land, and 'revisionism' : some reflections / Paul Bow --
Irish nationalism / John Hutchinson --
Irish unionism / Alvin Jackson --
Home rule and the historians / Alan O'Day --
1916, interpreting the rising / D. George Boyce --
Revising the diaspora / Alan O'Day --
Past and present : revisionism and the Northern Ireland troubles / D. George Boyce.
Responsibility: edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day.
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Revisionism has been an important issue in Irish history for several years, as varying partisan accounts of the Irish past have been rewritten and 'rescued' by journalists and historians of different political persuasions. This textbook brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and examines its historiography, assesses the context of new interpretations, considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas, and offers their own interpretation.

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