Constructing the Past - Writing Irish History, 1600-1800

Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age.

List of contents

Introduction - Roy Foster
Seventeenth-century Constructions of the Historical Kingdom of Ireland - Bernadette Cunningham
History, the Interregnum and the Exiled Irish -
'Making Dead Men Speak': Manipulating the Memory of James Usher - Alan Ford
The 1688 Revolution in Ireland and the Memory of 1641 - Richard Ansell
Writing and Publishing Histories in Eighteenth-century Ireland - Toby C Barnard
The Volunteer Evening Post and Patriotic Print Culture in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland - Martyn J. Powell
Constructing Counter-Revolutionary History in Late Eighteenth-century Ireland - Ultan Gillen
Cromwell and Catholics: Towards a Reassessment of Lay Catholic Experience in Interregnum Ireland - Scott Spurlock
Nature, Politics and Historians in Early Modern Ireland - Raymond Gillespie

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Paul Forrest, Mark Williams
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9781843835738
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-573-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Irish Historical Monographs
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918