Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973
Ireland: Dying for Bones
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement
by Robert Kee
Delacorte, 877 pp., $15.00
Towards a New Ireland
by Garret FitzGerald
Charles Knight & Co., London, £2.50
Irish historiography has for a long time been overshadowed by a dominant ideology: that of Irish Republicanism. The central element of this ideology consists of the Jacobin separatism of Theobald Wolfe Tone, as refracted through a particular form of Catholic-Nationalist mysticism: that of Padraig Pearse. This view of Irish history was enshrined in the Proclamation of 1916, and further sanctified as a result of the execution by the British of the signatories to that proclamation.
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