TY - JOUR
AU - DUFFY, SEÁN
AB -  REVIEWS Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism, 19381994. Edited by Ciäran Brady. Pp. xiv, 348. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1994. IR£32.50 hb., IR£14.95 pb. are a people very conscious of their history. Go into almost any in Ireland and you will find that the Irish history section has some of the most cluttered shelves in the store. Read the weekly bestseller lists for Ireland and you will find that usually a majority of the top ten non-fiction works are books on Irish history. Likewise, stop a hundred people in a Dublin street and ask them what a Revisionist is and you will get an answer from a surprisingly large number of them. Revisionism has passed into public parlance, if only as a term of abuse. All historians, of course, are or should be revisionists with a small V, but in Ireland some have become revisionists with a capital 'R'. What precisely the term means depends on which side of the argument one stands, but most would accept that a Revisionist is someone who is unhappy with the way that Irish history has sometimes been used as a justification for violent nationalism what is usually known in 
TI - Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism, 19381994 . Edited by Ciáran Brady. Pp. xiv, 348. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1994. IR£32.50 hb., IR£14.95 pb.
JF - Scottish Historical Review
DO - 10.3366/shr.1996.75.1.125
DA - 1996-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/edinburgh-university-press/interpreting-irish-history-the-debate-on-historical-revisionism-3dHqtNkhgC
SP - 125
EP - 126
VL - 75
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -