Sectarian” conflict in Ireland in 1916–1923 as a historical myth: the problem of interpretation in the historiography of the late XXth – early XXIst centuries

Authors

  • Александр Белявский Белорусский государственный университет, Минск, Беларусь

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/ochc.2512

Keywords:

Postcolonial studies, historiography, revisionism, “sectarian” conflict, Irish revolution, IRA, Kilmichael Ambush, Bandon valley killings

Abstract

Since 1980s the Irish historiography became an arena of rather intensive polemics on the subject of so called “revisionism”, provoked by the attempts of some academic historians to literally revise and “de-mythologize” the key events and personalities of the Irish history. One of such is the Irish revolution of 1916–1923. How should it be interpreted, as a political or a “sectarian” conflict? The author reviews the most important arguments of both sides, revisionists and nationalists, and tries to guess how typical this “revisionism” could be in the global context of postcolonial historical studies and what its reasons are.

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