Varieties of Irishness
Historical Revisionism, Irish Style
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8100673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy J Curtin (0000-0003-0845-4878, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-219 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/386104 |
| OpenAlex | W2014845819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 51 |
In an 1989 article in Irish Historical Studies , Brendan Bradshaw challenged the current practice of Irish history by arguing that an “ideology of professionalism” associated with the modern historiographical tradition established a half century ago, and now entrenched in the academy, “served to inhibit rather than to enhance the understanding of the Irish historical experience.” Inspired by the cautionary injunctions of Herbert Butterfield about teleological history, T. W. Moody, D. B. Quinn, and R. Dudley Edwards launched this revisionist enterprise in the 1930s, transforming Irish historiography which until then was subordinating historical truth to the cause of the nation. Their mission was to cleanse the historical record of its mythological clutter, to engage in what Moody called “the mental war of liberation from servitude to the myth” of Irish nationalist history, by applying scientific methods to the evidence, separating fact from destructive and divisive fictions. Events in the 1960s and 1970s reinforced this sense that the Irish people needed liberation from nationalist mythology, a mythology held responsible for the eruption of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and which offered legitimation to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the nightmare of history from which professional historians could rouse the Irish people. Nationalist heroes and movements came under even more aggressive, critical scrutiny. But much of this was of the character of specific studies. The revisionists seemed to have succeeded in tearing down the edifice of nationalist history, but they had offered little in the way of a general, synthetic history to replace it
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Ireland
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A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century
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Gender and the Politics of History
Charles Lucas and the Dublin Election of 1748–1749
Making Up Lost Time
Nationalist historiography and the English and Gaelic worlds in the late middle ages
The Origins and Transformation of Early Irish Republicanism
An Entirely Exceptional Case’
A new history of Ireland
The Whiteboy movement, 1761-5
The rise of a catholic middle class in eighteenth-century Ireland
Historiographical debate
The transformation of the Society of United Irishmen into a mass-based revolutionary organisation, 1794-6
Select documents XXXVIII
The United Irishmen
The Men of No Property
John Foster
Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland
Irish Peasants
The Origins of Ulster Unionism
An End to Moral Economy
Irish History with the Potato
Women in Early Modern Ireland
"Jonathan Clark, Social History and England's "Ancien Regime
Defenders, Ribbonmen and Others
The Potato in Ireland
Irish History Without the Potato
Women in Early Modern Ireland
Re-Creating Authority in Revolutionary France
A New History of Ireland
Uncivil Wars
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |