Browsing by Subject "Historiography"
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Fabricating 'Economic development'
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)Much of the literature, regardless of academic discipline, presents the publication of Economic Development in 1958 as analogous to a ?big bang? event in the creation of modern Ireland. However, such a ?big bang? perspective ... -
On the uses and disadvantages of history for Ireland : James Joyce and nationalist historiography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Nationalism saw a tremendous rise in Ireland during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, culminating in the Easter Rising and the formation of the Irish Free State. James Joyce's reading and interpretation ... -
Teaching the nation's past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-1969
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis considers the teaching of Irish history in Irish secondary schools post-Independence. It analyses the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and ... -
Voltaire: Précis du siècle de Louis XV
(The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, 2022)Voltaire’s Précis du siècle de Louis XV is not as well known as it should be for a number of reasons. First, in historiographical terms, Enlightenment history has never recovered from the rise of historicism and its critique ...