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The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?

category dublin | history and heritage | event notice author Sunday January 08, 2012 23:35author by Edward S Moody - The Historians Report this post to the editors

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)
Latest History Ireland - Jan-Feb 2012 - John Regan's view
Latest History Ireland - Jan-Feb 2012 - John Regan's view

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

Related Link: http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx?article=1a69f981-49c7-4c91-b511-53d26be99e6b

In the early 1970s FSL Lyons (TCD) warned Irish historians about getting embroiled in propaganda
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'
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
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
Brian Hanley on the dangers of one-sided history - CLICK letter to read it - in latest History Ireland

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   CLICK on graphics to read them better     Graphic Aly    Sun Jan 08, 2012 23:43 
   Could FSL Lyons Graphic above be changed for this one?     Edaward S Mooody    Sun Jan 08, 2012 23:50 
   Interview with Tommy Graham, Editor of History Ireland on Wednesday's debate     Patrick Geoghegan    Tue Jan 10, 2012 00:03 
   History observer     John Blackwell    Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:07 
   Where, what     Who    Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:31 
   Independent     Captain Kelly    Fri Jan 13, 2012 22:15 
   History Ireland Hedge School     C.S. Parnell    Wed Feb 01, 2012 17:31 


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