Shadow of a Year - The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory

Informationen zum Autor John Gibney earned his doctorate in history at Trinity College Dublin and is author of Ireland and the Popish Plot . A guide for the popular Historical Walking Tours of Dublin offered by Historical Insights Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to History Ireland magazine and scholarly journals. He has been a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame and the National University of Ireland, Galway. Klappentext In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. Gibney shows how politicians! historians! and polemicists have represented 1641 over the centuries! making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm.

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• Authors: John Gibney, Gibney John
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2013
• EAN: 9780299289546
• ISBN: 978-0-299-28954-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: History of Ireland and the Iri; History of Ireland and the Iri; History of Ireland & the Irish
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries