Conference:
19th Irish Conference of Historians, Trinity College Dublin, 8-10 June 1989
Proceedings:
Ciaran Brady (ed.), Historical Studies XVII: papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, held in Dublin on 8-10 June 1989 (Dublin: The Lilliput Press Ltd., 1991)
Table of Contents:
Preface p. vii
Previous Volumes in the Series p. viii
Contributors p. ix
Introduction pp. 1-10
Part One
Bernadette Cunningham, Librarian, Dublin Diocesan Library, ‘The Culture and Ideology of Irish Franciscan Historians at Louvain 1607-1650’, pp. 11-30
Eamon O’Flaherty, Lecturer in Modern History, University College, Dublin, ‘The Theatre of Diversity: Historical Criticism and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century France’, pp. 31-48
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Professor of History, University of Florida, ‘Honour and American Republicanism: A Neglected Corollary’, pp. 49-65
Dorinda Outram, Lecturer in History, University College, Cork, ‘‘Rousseau’s Stutter’: The French Revolution, Philosophy and the History of the Future’, pp. 66-76
W.J. McCormack, free-lance author, ‘The Tedium of History: An Approach to Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage (1814), pp. 77-98
Luke Gribbons, Lecturer in Communications, Dublin City University, ‘’ A shadowy Narrator’: History, Art and Romantic Nationalism in Ireland 1750-1850’, pp. 99-127
Stefan Collini, University Lecturer in English, Cambridge University, ‘Genealogies of Englishness: Literary History and Cultural Criticism in Modern Britain’, pp. 128-145
Ian Green, Senior Lecturer in History, Queen’s University, Belfast, ‘’Repulsives vs Wromantics’: Rival Views of the English Civil War’, pp. 146-167
David Fitzpatrick, Lecturer in Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, ‘The Futility of History: A Failed Experiment in Irish Education’, pp. 168-186
Part Two
Ivan Berend, President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1985-9, ‘History as a Scholarly Discipline and Magistra Vitae’, pp. 187-198
John Lukacs, Professor of History, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, ‘Polite Letters and Clio’s Fashions’, pp. 199-210
Aidan Clarke, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin, ‘A Commentary on John Lukac’s ‘Polite Letters’’, pp. 211-220
Notes, pp. 221-265
Index, pp. 265