Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and HistoryWhat is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
... revisionist” alternatives. Under Wormald's guidance I read R. H. Tawney's The Agrarian Problem of the Sixteenth Century and the works of George Unwin and Eileen Power. When I asked for a general reading list he recommended the works of ...
... revisionism.” Butterfield regularly referred to “putting on a new thinking cap” and “picking up the stick at the other end,” both aphorisms which implied the need for historians to be critical of current historical orthodoxies. It was a ...
... revisionism” was central to the approach of the History Department. Desmond Williams published a “revisionist” article on the origins of the Second World War, which later influenced A. J. P. Taylor. He also gave a public lecture on the ...
Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History Hugh F Kearney. very much against the revisionist view and in the United States the Famine has come to be seen in some circles as the Irish version of the Jewish holocaust, with the British ...
... revisionists” in our modern sense. I had come to Ireland as a medievalist. Almost immediately, however, I found myself conscripted into lecturing on early modern English history and on modern European history upto the outbreak of the ...