RECONSIDERATIONS
OF
IRISH HISTORY AND CULTURE
Introduced
& Edited by
Daltún Ó Ceallaigh
Published July 1994
ISBN 0-9518777-2-0
Paperback, 188 pages.
RECONSIDERATIONS of irish history
and culture
is a selection of major papers from the Desmond Greaves Summer Schools
since their inception in
1989 to 1993. Its scope is no less than history, culture and politics. In the
literal sense of the term, it is a radical as well as an uncompromising
examination of the most prominent intellectual and national concerns of our day
- historiography, language, identity, feminism, and political stance - and not
least as they all interrelate.
In large measure, it is a rigorous scrutiny of what has come to be
called ‘revisionism’ and looks both at contemporary myth-breaking and
myth-making, variously suggesting that cherished views of the past may have to
be rethought and that much of our history is being reconstructed to protect the
conservatism of the present
contents
RECONSIDERATIONS
1. Revising Irish History
2. The Colonised Mind - Irish Language and Society Tomás MacSiomóin
3. Past Events and Present
Politics - Roy Foster’s ‘Modern
Ireland’
Brian P
Murphy
4. Post-Colonial IRELAND - “Being Different” Declan Kiberd
5.
History Women And History Men -
6. History Revisions - Good and Bad Dónal McCartney
C Desmond Greaves - POLITICIAN AND HISTORIAN Anthony Coughlan
About the Contributors
References and Notes
ABOUT THE Contributors
[As
at
1993]
Daltún Ó Ceallaigh
-
An Arts
graduate of Trinity College Dublin and writer on historical and political
affairs, author of the books Labour,
Nationalism and Irish Freedom (1991)
and Sovereign
People or Crown Subjects? - the case for articles 2 and 3 (1993); by
profession, General Secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers.
Brendan Bradshaw
- Director
of Studies in History at Queens’ College, Cambridge; Lecturer in History at
the University; also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Tomás MacSiomóin
- A
science graduate of the National University of Ireland and a doctoral graduate
of Cornell University, New York. An Irish-language poet, essayist, critic and
journalist. Editor of Comhar, the
leading current affairs and literary magazine in Irish, and Lecturer in Applied
Biology at Dublin Institute of Technology.
Brian P Murphy
- A graduate of Oxford University and the National University of Ireland.
Author of Patrick Pearse and the Lost Republican Ideal (Dublin,
1991).
Declan Kiberd
- A teacher of English at University College
Dublin and a weekly columnist with The
Irish Press. Among his books are Synge
and the Irish Language, Men and Feminism in Modern Literature, An Crann Faoi Bhláth:
Irish Poetry and Verse Translations, The Student’s Annotated Ulysses, and
Idir Dhá Chultúr. He has lectured on Irish culture in over twenty
countries and held academic posts at the Universities of Kent, Minnesota,
California, and in Trinity College Dublin. He was educated at TCD and Oxford
University.
Mary Cullen
- A Senior
Lecturer in Modern History at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Her major
research interest is in women’s history. She has published a wide range of
articles and is editor of Girls don’t do
honours: Irish women in education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Dublin:
WEB, 1987). She is a founder member and the current president of the Irish
Association for Research in Women’s History.
Dónal McCartney
- A Professor
of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. Among his publications is The
Dawning of Democracy: Ireland 1800-1870. His most recent book is W
E H Lecky: Historian and Politician 1838-1903.
Anthony
Coughlan
-
A Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. He is
Desmond Greaves’s literary executor and a committee member of the Greaves
Summer School.