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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299289540
ISBN-139780299289546
eBay Product ID (ePID)117362533
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Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameShadow of a Year : the 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEurope / Ireland, Modern / 17th Century, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorJohn Gibney
SeriesHistory of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-010169
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Gibney's work is deeply researched, well documented, and extremely well written. It will be a valuable resource for lay readers, scholars, and students. Highly recommended."-- Library Journal , STARRED REVIEW, "This is the best account to date of how continuing English-language disputations concerning the nature of the insurrection that occurred in Ireland in 1641 influenced present politics for three centuries, in three countries and in two continents. "-Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway, "This is the best account to date of how continuing English-language disputations concerning the nature of the insurrection that occurred in Ireland in 1641 influenced present politics for three centuries, in three countries and in two continents. Scholars in the U.S. will benefit especially from John Gibney's discussion of how the subject was re-opened in a new environment by Matthew Carey, who was responding in part to the inclusion of the extreme Protestant interpretation of the subject in the Amerian editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs "--Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway, "Gibney provides exactly the over-arching examination of the 'history wars' that we have been waiting for and, in the context of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the recent mass digitization of the 1641 loyalist depositions, it is exceptionally timely."-David Dickson, Trinity College Dublin, "This is the best account to date of how continuing English-language disputations concerning the nature of the insurrection that occurred in Ireland in 1641 influenced present politics for three centuries, in three countries and in two continents. Scholars in the U.S. will benefit especially from John Gibney's discussion of how the subject was re-opened in a new environment by Matthew Carey, who was responding in part to the inclusion of the extreme Protestant interpretation of the subject in the Amerian editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs "-Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway, "Gibney's work is deeply researched, well documented, and extremely well written. It will be a valuable resource for lay readers, scholars, and students. Highly recommended."-- Library Journal , STARRED REVIEW, "Gibney provides exactly the over-arching examination of the 'history wars' that we have been waiting for and, in the context of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the recent mass digitization of the 1641 loyalist depositions, it is exceptionally timely."--David Dickson, Trinity College Dublin
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal941.506
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "The Sad Story of our Miseries": Protestant Interpretations of the Rebellion, c. 1641-c. 1840 2 "The Naked Truth of this Tragical History": Catholic Interpretations of the Rising, c. 1641-c. 1865 3 "Historical Facts" and "Stupendous Falsehoods": An Irish Insurrection at the Limits of Scholarship, c. 1865-c. 1965 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal "massacre," this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike., Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion , Ken Kesey said he was too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie. It s All a Kind of Magic is the first biography of Kesey. It reveals a youthful life of brilliance and eccentricity that encompassed wrestling, writing, farming, magic and ventriloquism, CIA-funded experiments with hallucinatory drugs, and a notable cast of characters that would come to include Wallace Stegner, Larry McMurtry, Tom Wolfe, Neal Cassady, Timothy Leary, the Grateful Dead, and Hunter S. Thompson. Based on meticulous research and many interviews with friends and family, Rick Dodgson s biography documents Kesey s early life, from his time growing up in Oregon through his college years, his first drug experiences, and the writing of his most famous books. While a graduate student in creative writing at Stanford University in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kesey worked the night shift at the Menlo Park Veterans Administration hospital, where he earned extra money taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs for medical studies. Soon he and his bohemian crowd of friends were using the same substances to conduct their own experiments, exploring the frontiers of their minds and testing the boundaries of their society. With the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest , Kesey moved to La Honda, California, in the foothills of San Mateo County, creating a scene that Hunter S. Thompson remembered as the world capital of madness. There, Kesey and his growing band of Merry Prankster friends began hosting psychedelic parties and living a hippie lifestyle before anyone knew what that meant. Tom Wolfe s book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test mythologized Kesey s adventures in the 1960s. Illustrated with rarely seen photographs, It s All a Kind of Magic depicts a precocious young man brimming with self-confidence and ambition who through talent, instinct, and fearless spectacle made his life into a performance, a wild magic act that electrified American and world culture. Rick Dodgson has pored over Kesey s published and unpublished writings, interviews, and historical records to write a colorful biography of this charismatic American character. The resulting portrayal challenges assumptions about Kesey s place in the counterculture. Journal of American History Dodgson s painstaking research unearths hidden gems of Kesey s life that marked him as a fascinating figure. H-Net "
LC Classification NumberDA943.G42 2013
