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| Titre : | Directions in historiography : Our island story? Towards a transnational history of late modern Ireland (2011) |
| Auteurs : | Enda DELANEY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 37 n 148 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 599-621 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | |
| Résumé : | National histories written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fostered notions of a shared identity and created the sense of an embryonic nation. In the case of Ireland, there is a long tradition of presenting its history as a story, more often as a morality tale. The precocious mobilisation of Irish nationalism in the early nineteenth century added weight to such viewpoints. Old variants invariably have a teleological feel, a Whig-like progression towards that inevitable end point of fully formed Irish nation even if the nation state that emerged in 1921-2 fell short of nationalist aspirations. After briefly considering the current practices in the writing of history of late modern Ireland, a number of indicatives examples of this transnational history are discussed. Finally, we consider the potential pitfalls of such an approach |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Enda Delaney |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
