The Great Famine and its interpreters, old and new
by James S. Donnelly, Jr For many years now revisionist historians have delighted in debunking nationalist interpretations of the Irish past. In general revisionism has had a triumphal march, slaying one dragon of nationalist historiography after another. But more recently, the revisionist enterprise received a serious challenge from Brenden Bradshaw in that citadel of revisionism, … Read more