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Twentieth-Century Ireland: Revolution and State Building

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Description for Twentieth-Century Ireland: Revolution and State Building Paperback. 20th Century Ireland. 598pp

Twentieth-Century Ireland is a revised and extended study of the long twentieth century, surveying politics, administrative history, social and religious history, culture and censorship, politics, literature and art. It explores central but neglected features of modern Irish history, presenting an inclusive narrative.

This is a book about the establishment and consolidation of the new Irish state. Dermot Keogh highlights the long tragedy of emigration and its effect on the Irish psyche and on the under-performance of the Irish economy. He emphasises the loss of the new-found opportunities for reform of the 1960s and early 70s. Membership of the ... Read more

The despair of the 1950s revisited the country in the 1980s as almost an entire generation felt compelled to emigrate, very often as undocumented workers in the United States.

Dermot Keogh also argues that the violence in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s had a major hidden impact on the government of the Irish state. He presents the crisis as an Anglo-Irish failure which was turned around only when the British government acknowledged that the Irish government had a vital role to play in the resolution of the problem.

Dermot Keogh extends his analysis to include a wide-ranging survey of the most contentious events - financial corruption, child sexual abuse, scandals in the Catholic Church - between 1994 and 2005.

‘Here is a fair-minded political history which also embraces cultural developments. It seeks to write into Irish history those it feels had previously been written out ; migrant workers, emigrants, itinerants, religious minorities and that other half of the Irish race, women.’ Sunday Tribune

‘Dr Keogh’s book stands as a mighty effort by one historian to help us understand our recent past and cut through the shibboleths.’ The Irish Times

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd Dublin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717132973
SKU
9780717132973
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About Dermot Keogh
Dermot Keogh is Professor of History and Jean Monnet Emeritus Professor, at University College Cork. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, twice a Fulbright Professor, a Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC, a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, and in 2001/2 a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Florence. He ... Read more

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