Interpreting Irish History The Debate on Historical Revisionism

by Brady, Ciaran

• ISBN13: 9780716525462
• ISBN10: 0716525461
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-16
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Ciaran Brady has done an excellent job in putting together a collection of documents which both traces the history of revisionism in Irish historiography and uncovers most of the contentious intellectual issues which revisionism raises. Irish Studies Review The book is admirably suited to the teaching of university courses on Irish history, where historiography is now a major issue. Irish Times

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Contributors	xii
PART I: INTRODUCTION
`Constructive and Instrumental': The Dilemma of Ireland's First `New Historians'	3	(32)
Ciaran Brady
PART II: STATEMENTS OF INTENT
Preface to Irish Historical Studies	35	(3)
T.W. Moody
R.D. Edwards
A New History of Ireland	38	(16)
T.W. Moody
An Agenda for Irish History, 1978-2018	54	(17)
R.D. Edwards
PART III: ASSUMPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
Irish History and Irish Mythology	71	(16)
T.W. Moody
The Burden of Our History	87	(18)
F.S.L. Lyons
Ambiguity in Nationalism: The Case of Ireland	105	(17)
Oliver MacDonagh
History and the Irish Question	122	(24)
Roy Foster
`The Great Enchantment': Uses and Abuses of Modern Irish History	146	(15)
Ronan Fanning
Nationalist Historiography and the English and Gaelic Worlds in the Late Middle Ages	161	(20)
Steven Ellis
PART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Against Revisionism	181	(10)
Desmond Fennell
Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland	191	(26)
Brendan Bradshaw
Revisionist Milestone	217	(5)
Kevin O'Neill
The Canon of Irish Cultural History: Some Questions Concerning Roy Foster's Modern Ireland	222	(12)
Brian Murphy
Wherever Green is Read	234	(12)
Seamus Deane
The Irish and Their History	246	(7)
Hugh Kearney
Unionist History	253	(16)
Alvin Jackson
Making History in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s: The Saga of The Great Famine	269	(19)
Cormac O Grada
Ireland's Marxist Historians	288	(18)
Anthony Coughlan
Irish Historical `Revisionism': State of the Art or Ideological Project?	306	(21)
M.A.G. O Tuathaigh
Select Biblography	327	(10)
Index I	337	(10)
Index II	347