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Zusatztext 'This is a stimulating book. It asserts the value of the discipline of history against its current enemies. Those! on the one hand! who would dissolve history into literature! a form of story-telling where fiction is as good as fact. And those! on the other hand! who understand history as the source for useful propaganda' - Arthur Aughey! The Making of Modern Irish History'Between them they have compiled a really excellent and much needed study. The editors deserve particular congratulations.' - Charles Chenevix Trench! Irish Independent Informationen zum Autor Boyce, D. George; O'Day, Alan Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together some of the most distinguished historians from Ireland to offer their own interpretations of key issues and events in Irish history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Eighteenth Century Ireland: Colony or Ancient Regime? 2. The Context and Causes of the '98 Rebellion 3. The Union and its Consequences 4. The Great Famine5. Irish Nationalism6. Irish Unionism7. Land: The Revisionist Controversy 8. 1916: The Meaning of a Rising9. British Policy and Ireland10. Literature, Nationalism and Society
