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This book considers not just Irish history, but also how perspectives and treatments of that history have effected modern Ireland, north and south. While knowledge of history can help explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of some of the myths and misuses of our history can further help create a framework for understanding our current political and social challenges.
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Reviews
"No country in the world discourses more about its history: no country makes more ill use of it. In this book Brian Walker unpicks the complicated tale and, in a triumph of calm lucidity, gives us the truth."
Professor Paul Bew
"Brian Walker challenges embedded myths and perceptions, peels away the real from the imagined, presents and confronts truths that we in Ireland and the United Kingdom need to know if the future is to be unchained from a past that cannot be changed but needs to be remembered differently."
Mary McAleese
"One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past."
Michael Cassidy