The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?

dublin | history and heritage | event notice Sunday January 08, 2012 23:35 by Edward S Moody - The Historians

DEBATE - Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 - National Library of Ireland - 7pm

History Ireland Editor Tommy Graham will chair a Hedge School debate

National Library of Ireland (Dawson Street). 11 January 2012, 7pm

The War of Independence: ‘four glorious years’ or squalid sectarian conflict?
with David Fitzpatrick (TCD), John M. Regan (Dundee), Eve Morrison (TCD) and John Borgonovo (UCC)

Latest History Ireland - Jan-Feb 2012 - John Regan's view

Further information on the participants:

JOHN BORGONOVO (http://www.ucc.ie/en/history/fullstory-135538-en.html):
History Ireland Book Review: Gerard Murphy, The Year of Disappearances
http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/JohnBorgonovo/Papers/476425/...ances

JOHN BORGONOVO:
The Guerrilla Infrastructure: IRA Special Services in the Cork No. 1 Brigade, 1917-1921
http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/JohnBorgonovo/Papers/477695/...-1921

JOHN REGAN (http://www.dundee.ac.uk/history/staff/regan/):
Irish public histories as an historiographical problem
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/468861/Iris...oblem

JOHN REGAN:
The 'Irish revolution' as a historiographical problem
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/468833/The_...oblem

(PLUS: The Two Histories, History Ireland, Jan-Feb 2012 - see attached graphics)

SEE ALSO
MEDA RYAN, The Kilmichael Ambush, 1920: Exploring the 'Provocative Chapters'
http://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/713881/Meda...pters

DAVID FITZPATRICK (http://people.tcd.ie/dftzptrk):
History In A Hurry
http://www.drb.ie/more_details/11-03-17/History_In_A_Hu....aspx

RESPONSE:
Distorting Irish History Two, the road from Dunmanway: Peter Hart’s treatment of the 1922 ‘April killings’ in West Cork
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/618347/Disto..._Cork)

EVE WILLIAMSON: Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars
http://www.tcd.ie/history/research/irish-history-semina...s.php

ANOTHER VIEW:
Distorting Irish History [One], the stubborn facts of Kilmichael: Peter Hart and Irish Historiography
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/322984/Disto...raphy
ALSO:
Reply to Jeffrey Dudgeon on Peter Hart
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/1133971/Repl..._Hart
Troubled History - a tenth anniversary Critique of Peter Hart's 'The IRA and its Enemies'
http://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Books/75341/Trouble...emies

In the early 1970s FSL Lyons (TCD) warned Irish historians about getting embroiled in propaganda

Roy Foster is most associated with the 'revisionist' current in irish history - he accuses republicans of being 'sectarian'

Peter Hart was criticised for suppressing evidence that undermined his claim that IRA leader Tom Barry was a liar and that killings in April 1922 were sectarian

Brian Hanley on the dangers of one-sided history - CLICK letter to read it - in latest History Ireland