| Ireland's Polemical Past: Views of Irish History in Honour of R.V. Comerford Contributor(s): Dooley, Terence (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906359458 ISBN-13: 9781906359454 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: 941.500 |
| LCCN: 2010444326 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How societies use the past is one of their most revealing traits. Using this insight Ireland's Polemical Past examines how the inhabitants of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland plundered their pasts for polemical reasons. The ten essays explore how revolutionaries, politicians, churchmen, artists, tourists and builders (among others) used the Irish past in creating and justifying their own position in contemporary society. The result is a varied portrait of the problems and tensions in nineteenth and early twentieth-century society that these people tried to solve by resorting to the Irish past for inspiration and justification to make their world work. This is a book that will appeal to those who have an interest in the making of modern Ireland as well as those concerned with writing about the Irish past at any level. |
