Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History, 1600-1800

Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age.

Ireland and the Irish, it is often argued, have been mired for centuries in mindsets which employ the past in order to trace and justify the enmities of the present. However, as Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History 1600-1800 seeks to underscore, the truth of such interactions with the Irish past is far more complex and dynamic. Spanning two hundred years ...