Irish history text

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:44:18 +0000

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Without wishing to sound like a nationalist extremist, Foster's MODERN IRELAND
is pretty Anglocentric as it goes for an Irish history text. His hostility
to nationalism, but especially to Republicanism, would not, I think, serve
to present a particularly Irish point of view.

I have addressed the text issue before but a really provocative work for
raising questions could be either of Oliver MacDonagh's works: STATES OF
MIND or IRELAND:THE UNION AND ITS AFTERMATH. I find Lyons' CULTURE AND
ANARCHY IN IRELAND to be very useful. More predictable would be
Mansergh's THE IRISH QUESTION and George Dangerfield's THE DAMNABLE
QUESTION. I wish Patrick O'Farrell's IRELAND'S ENGLISH QUESTION was in
print as it is bound to stir the waters in discussion. His other book on
the union fits the Mansergh and Dangerfield mode. Hachey's book on
separatism (exact title escapes me at the moment) could be useful too.

Sean Farrell Moran
Dept. of History
Oakland University
moran@vela.acs.oakland.edu

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