Sir,—There appears to be an ever-growing trend to dismiss the Civil War and to downplay it within the ‘decade of centenaries’. In his letter, ‘The failings of past generations’ (HI 29.4, July/August 2021), Joe Coy argues that, because the ‘butcher’s list’ is short in comparison to civil wars in the same period, it should, by … Read more
A chara,—My Platform piece (HI 28.4, July/August 2020) abridged an essay in Irish Studies Review that challenged revisionist claims to write value-free history. I then critiqued revisionism on its own empirical terrain, working methodically through three canonical texts to illustrate persistent bias, ultimately characterising revisionism as an ideological project providing an élite narrative of Irish … Read more