Legacy of History : For Making Peace in Ireland: Lectures and Commemorative Addresses

by MANSERGH MARTIN

• ISBN13: 9781856353892
• ISBN10: 1856353893
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

A collection of thought-provoking historical pieces by a leading player in North-South relations And The peace process.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
The Value of Historical Commemoration	p. 14
Tribute to an Historian Father	p. 24
Revisionism	p. 27
The Significance of St. Patrick's Day	p. 30
Republicanism in a Christian Country	p. 32
Creating a New Era of Understanding and Trust	p. 48
The Remains of Medieval Tipperary	p. 66
Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Irish Politics	p. 68
The Legacy of Kinsale	p. 81
From the Treaty of Limerick to the Framework Document	p. 92
In Memory of the Patriot Ireland of 1782	p. 106
Dr. William Drennan	p. 115
The Significance of Wolfe Tone and his Legacy	p. 125
The Orange Order	p. 132
The Rights of Man in Ireland	p. 152
The Assassination of St. George and Uniacke	p. 163
The 1798 Rebellion	p. 167
Irish Unionism and its Legacy	p. 181
'A Nation at Peace Once Again'? The Legacy of Thomas Davis	p. 194
The Famine	p. 202
'There's a Deal to be Done Yet'. Charles Kicham	p. 205
Parnell and the Leadership of Nationalist Ireland	p. 210
What Became of Tim Healy?	p. 227
Padraic Pearse and the Creation of an Irish National Democracy	p. 230
Roger Casement and the Idea of a Broader Nationalist Tradition	p. 241
The Government of Ireland Act, 1920	p. 249
The Ambush at Sologheadbeg	p. 257
Freedom and a New Dawn of Peace. Sean Treacy	p. 263
'The Freedom to Achieve Freedom'? Collins and de Valera	p. 266
Liam Mellows and the Struggle against Imperialism	p. 287
A Passionate Attachment to the Ideal. Erskine Childers	p. 290
A Fallen Republican Leader. Liam Lynch	p. 299
Tom Maguire and the Stretching of Republican Legitimacy	p. 304
Todd Andrews. A Pioneer in State-Building	p. 312
Elizabeth Bowen and the Anglo-Irish Tradition	p. 317
The Irish Constitution Fifty Years On	p. 324
The Political Legacy of Sean Lernass	p. 330
Fianna Fail and its History	p. 354
The Uses of History. The Outbreak of the Troubles	p. 386
The Legacy of the Hunger Strikes	p. 405
In Memoriam Gordon Wilson	p. 409
Challenges to modern Republicanism: Remembering Sean Moylan	p. 415
Notes and Footnotes	p. 420
Bibliography
Index
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