The Irish Story

by Foster

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Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century.
Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is...Read more
  • ISBN10 0195159020
  • ISBN13 9780195159028
  • Publish Date 6 September 2002
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 April 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 281
  • Language English