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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, A. T. Q. (Anthony Terence Quincey), 1929-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Historiography.

Ireland.

Ireland--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Criticizing his own profession for purporting to be scientific while largely ignoring the implications of, for example, scientific archaeology, Stewart also opens up the closed shop of Irish history for the general reader. The result is a landmark book - the terrain of Irish history will never be the same again.

Contents:

Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 THE WALLED GARDEN; 2 THE NIGHT OF TIME; 3 HIBERNIA ANTIQUA; 4 HOLY DISORDERS; 5 HIBERNIA CURIOSA; 6 LIBERTY AND THE HOUR; 7 THE RESTLESS NATION; 8 REVOLUTION; 9 THE CAIN-ABEL BUSINESS; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; The 10.14 from Clontarf; Making a Statement; A Letter of Instructions; The Case of the Missing Millennia; Why Didn't They Ask Evans?; Scene of the Crime; Forensic; Footprints; The Passage Tombs; The Palimpsest; The Vanishing Celts; The Great Roman Mystery; The Monk's Tale; The Book of Invasions; Beyond the Pale; The Long Divorce; Confederates

IronsidesBuried Treasure; A Tragedy in Three Acts; Ascendancy; The Year of the Slaughter; Enlightenment; The Aerial Crosbie; The First Republicans; The Leaves of the Shamrock; Why, Soldiers, Why?; The Fatal Union; The Liberator; Famine; Home Rule; Interlude; Crisis; Blood Work; The Mosaic; The Labyrinth; Rivers of Coffee; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7735-7000-4

OCLC:

243614092