The shadow of a year : the 1641 rebellion in Irish history and memory
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Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Natrona Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
941.506 GIBNEY
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941.506 GIBNEY
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Published
Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.
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Book
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English
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40021904159
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.
Summary
"In 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."--Publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gibney, J. (2013). The shadow of a year: the 1641 rebellion in Irish history and memory . The University of Wisconsin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gibney, John, 1976-. 2013. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory. The University of Wisconsin Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gibney, John, 1976-. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gibney, John. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
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