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The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?
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Sunday January 08, 2012 23:35
by Edward S Moody - The Historians
DEBATE - Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 - National Library of Ireland - 7pm
History Ireland Editor Tommy Graham will chair a Hedge School debate
National Library of Ireland (Dawson Street). 11 January 2012, 7pm
The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?
with David Fitzpatrick (TCD), John M. Regan (Dundee), Eve Morrison (TCD) and John Borgonovo (UCC)
Further information on the participants:
JOHN BORGONOVO (http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/fullstory-135538-en.html):
History Ireland Book Review: Gerard Murphy, The Year of Disappearances
http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/JohnBorgonovo/Papers/476425/...ances
JOHN BORGONOVO:
The Guerrilla Infrastructure: IRA Special Services in the Cork No. 1 Brigade, 1917-1921
http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/JohnBorgonovo/Papers/477695/...-1921
JOHN REGAN (http://www.dundee.ac.uk/history/staff/regan/):
Irish public histories as an historiographical problem
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/468861/Iris...oblem
JOHN REGAN:
The 'Irish revolution' as a historiographical problem
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/468833/The_...oblem
(PLUS: The Two Histories, History Ireland, Jan-Feb 2012 - see attached graphics)
SEE ALSO
MEDA RYAN, The Kilmichael Ambush, 1920: Exploring the 'Provocative Chapters'
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/713881/Meda...pters
DAVID FITZPATRICK (http://people.tcd.ie/dftzptrk):
History In A Hurry
http://www.drb.ie/more_details/11-03-17/History_In_A_Hu....aspx
RESPONSE:
Distorting Irish History Two, the road from Dunmanway: Peter Hart’s treatment of the 1922 ‘April killings’ in West Cork
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/618347/Disto..._Cork)
EVE WILLIAMSON: Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars
http://www.tcd.ie/history/research/irish-history-semina...s.php
ANOTHER VIEW:
Distorting Irish History [One], the stubborn facts of Kilmichael: Peter Hart and Irish Historiography
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/322984/Disto...raphy
ALSO:
Reply to Jeffrey Dudgeon on Peter Hart
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/1133971/Repl..._Hart
Troubled History - a tenth anniversary Critique of Peter Hart's 'The IRA and its Enemies'
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Books/75341/Trouble...emies
In the early 1970s FSL Lyons (TCD) warned Irish historians about getting embroiled in propaganda
Roy Foster is most associated with the 'revisionist' current in irish history - he accuses republicans of being 'sectarian'
Peter Hart was criticised for suppressing evidence that undermined his claim that IRA leader Tom Barry was a liar and that killings in April 1922 were sectarian
Brian Hanley on the dangers of one-sided history - CLICK letter to read it - in latest History Ireland
Comments (7 of 7)
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Could FSL Lyons Graphic above be changed for this one?
In the early 1970s FSL Lyons (TCD) warned Irish historians about getting embroiled in propaganda
Listen here
Short promo for debate: Tommy Graham with Patrick Geoghegan Talking History Newstalk 8 January 2011
I note that Professor Regan, like all our British-based so-called historians sees fit to describe the IRA as 'terrorists' and lavish prise on FSL Lyons, a Unionist apologist. Typical.
Where did Regan do that? What unionism was Lyons an apologist for?
Regan used the term 'terrorists' to describe the IRA in History Ireland. FSL Lyons was provost of Trinity College Dublin. He is regarded as the founder of revisionism in the history profession. Unionists dominated Trinity politics in his era and he was one.
Video upload, History Ireland Hedge School, 'The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?,'
Recorded 11 January 2012 at the National Library
Regan was the best of the lot.
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