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| Titre : | Revisionist historians and the modern Irish state : the conflict between the Advisory Committee and the Bureau of Military History, 1947-66 (2006) |
| Auteurs : | Evi GKOTZARIDIS, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 35 n 137 2006) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 99-116 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | The most resounding charge brought during the last two decades against 'revisionism' in Irish historiography has been that of a tacit collaboration between historians and the government. This accusation is too serious to be left unexamined. Traditionalists have denounced 'revisionism' as a dubious device designed to prop up the border and undo the work of the revolution. Desmond Fennell declared categorically that 'Both in its ultimate thrust, and as a matter of objective fact, [it] is the historiography of the counter-revolution.' Séamus Deane defined it as 'a provincial phenomenon' and dismissed it practioners as 'neo-unionist'. It is not enough simply to deny that such complicity ever occured: this requires demonstration |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Evi Gkotzaridis |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
