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Thread #150911   Message #3614488
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Apr-14 - 06:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
"Thirdly, the issue of culpability has been consistently avoided or denied in revisionist accounts. Moreover, both the landlords and the British government have been rehabilitated;"
" Revisionism has dominated Irish historiography since the 1930s, and more intensely since the 1960s."
Precisely
Discussion on blame for the famine has only taken place in the last dozen years, virtually since the 150th centenary.
That is the bit of Kinealy's statement you have deliberately(?) left out.
Kinealy and all modern historians are now debating the causes of the famine; Kinealy and others you have quoted have all drawn attention to the fact that the issue of blame has not been discussed since the 1960s (hence here referring to that date has been because revisionists have been afraid to do so because of the developing situation in the North - she specifically makes the point that they have not wished to hand the dissident Republicans ammunition at a dangerous point in history - it's all there if you care to read it - if you haven't already and deliberately ignored it.
I think that just about wraps up your case for "majority historians" - don't you?
Now will you go away - fall on your sword like a good Samurai should
Jim Carroll