Ireland's Polemical Past - Views of Irish History in Honour of R.V. Comerford (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University College Dublin Press
Country of origin:	Ireland
Release date:	2010
First published:	July 2010
Editors:	Terence Dooley
Contributors:	D. George Boyce • John Coolahan • Maura Cronin • Enda Delaney • Terence Dooley • Roy Foster • Irene Furlong • Jennifer Kelly • Margaret Kelleher
Dimensions:	234 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-906359-45-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-906359-45-8
Barcode:	9781906359454

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