Ireland's Polemical Past: Views of Irish History in Honour of R.V. Comerford

by Terence A.M. Dooley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906359458
• ISBN13: 9781906359454
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"