Trials of Irish history
Subtitle: genesis and evolution of a reappraisal, 1938-2000
By: Evi Gkotzaridis.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Historiography -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Ireland -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The intellectual mood in the 1990s; title: The revisionist; title: Internal critique; title: The loss of history and the new historians' fight against propaganda on the Irish and continental "front"; title: The clash between the new historians and the bureau of military history; title: Weaknesses in ethnographic method; title: Theoretical underpinnings and their impact; title: The claims of memory and critique; title: The epistemological and philosophical position of Irish revisionism; title: The revolution comes under revisionist scrutiny; title: The concept of totalitarianism; title: Revision, deconstruction, semiology; title: Relativism and its opponents; title: The problematic of ends and means; title: Grappling with the problem of objectivity.