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Thread #150911   Message #3614522
Posted By: Jim Carroll
02-Apr-14 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
"The nationalists have always blamed Britain."
The historians you have quoted point out that they have not discussed blame - your own links contain that fact.
The "revisionists" you refer to are precisely those who have avoided blaming anyone - see Kinealy's lecture on "Revisionism" - you have had it for long enough - her whole case has been this fact and yur case has been a total distortion of hers - which is, in fact, that the question of blame has been deliberately avoided so as not to "give comfort to the current nationalists".
You have built your entire case on a deliberate distortion of what she has to say.
This is how Kinealy describes Revisionism:
" A key objective of Irish revisionism was to exorcise the ghost of nationalism from historical discourse and to replace it with historical narratives that persistently played down the separateness and the trauma, and derided the heroes and villains of Irish history. However, this declared determination of revisionism to destroy the 'myths and untruths' of populist historical consciousness has also limited the ability of revisionists to construct an alternative view of Irish history. Also, as Seamus Deane, the literary critic and poet has observed, in Ireland, there exists 'the felt need for mythologies, heroic lineages and dreams of continuity'. Such myths and dreams need to be explained and deconstructed, not denied, destroyed or omitted, to suit a present convenience"
Teribus is a Neanderthal thug who appears to have shuffled back to his cave; he, like you, has refused to address any of the points of Government policy on The Famine - please cite him as an authoritative historian - that really will make my day.
Jim Carroll