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The shape of Irish history /A.T.Q. Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773570009
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DA910 .S537 2001
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The night of time -- Hibernia antiqua -- Holy disorders -- Hibernia curiosa -- Liberty and the hour -- The restless nation -- Revolution -- The Cain-Abel business.
Summary: Publisher Fact Sheet A meditation on the nature of history that challenges hitherto sacrosanct assumptions about Ireland's past.Summary: Annotation In an exploration of the essential structure of what is called Irish history, A.T.Q. Stewart looks at some shadowy areas and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, Stewart argues, the information has not percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Publisher Fact Sheet A meditation on the nature of history that challenges hitherto sacrosanct assumptions about Ireland's past.

Annotation In an exploration of the essential structure of what is called Irish history, A.T.Q. Stewart looks at some shadowy areas and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, Stewart argues, the information has not percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience.

The walled garden -- The night of time -- Hibernia antiqua -- Holy disorders -- Hibernia curiosa -- Liberty and the hour -- The restless nation -- Revolution -- The Cain-Abel business.

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