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Thread #151520 Message #3545071
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Aug-13 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
For the interest of anbody in doubt as to Kinealy's position on who was to blame for the famine and revisionism
Now there's an end t' it! - or should be
Incidentally, do you know that one of Britain's leading historians, A.J.P Taylor referred to the Famine as "England's Belsen" - wonder if he supported the IRA!!
Jim Carroll
"At one level she assumes the role of the Roy Foster of Famine history and at another the mantle of a modern Cecil Woodham-Smith. She will not like the first description, for Foster is the arch-revisionist, not a species that finds favour with Dr Kinealy, since revisionists seek to remove blame from considerations of Ireland's past and Kinealy is very strong on blame."
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/43