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Ireland, 1798
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Suggests "that the mainstream tradition of Irish historical scholarship, as it has developed since the 1930s, has been vitiated by a faulty methodological procedure".
Argues "that the modern tradition actually developed in self-consciousness reaction against an earlier nationalist tradition of historical interpretation and aspired to produce 'value-free' history in accordance with the criteria of scientific research outlined in Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History. It will be argued that that is precisely the problem."
R. D. Edwards and T. D. Moody: Irish Historical Studies (1937-8).
Modern school of value free historians..."denies the historian recourse to value-judgements and, therefore, access to the kind of moral and emotional register necessary to respond to human tragedy". (341).
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IntroductionIreland, 1798
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Week 1 Lecture Outline
Ireland 1798
- The Context
- The Year of Liberty
- 'Revisionism', and the Historiography of '98
| Poyning's Law United Irish Society Defenders Bantry Bay Father John Murphy Enniscorthy Scullabogue Vinegar Hill Humbert Robert Emmet (1778-1803) |
George III Theobald Wolfe Tone Peep o'Day Boys Lord Edward Fitzgerald Wexford New Ross Michael Dwyer Killala, County Mayo Lord Cornwallis |
Revisionism
Brendan Bradshaw, 'Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland', Irish Historical Studies XXVI No. 104, Nov. 1989, pp. 329-351.Suggests "that the mainstream tradition of Irish historical scholarship, as it has developed since the 1930s, has been vitiated by a faulty methodological procedure".
Argues "that the modern tradition actually developed in self-consciousness reaction against an earlier nationalist tradition of historical interpretation and aspired to produce 'value-free' history in accordance with the criteria of scientific research outlined in Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History. It will be argued that that is precisely the problem."
R. D. Edwards and T. D. Moody: Irish Historical Studies (1937-8).
Modern school of value free historians..."denies the historian recourse to value-judgements and, therefore, access to the kind of moral and emotional register necessary to respond to human tragedy". (341).
Recommended Readings
- Brendan Bradshaw, 'Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland', Irish Historical Studies XXVI No. 104, Nov. 1989, pp. 329-351.
- R. D. Edwards and T. D. Moody: Irish Historical Studies (1937-8).
