Imagining Ireland's Pasts

The book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative.

Now a Professor Emeritus, Nicholas Canny was Professor of History at the NUI Galway, Founding Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (OUP, 2001), which won the Irish Historical Research Prize, 2001, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (OUP, 2011), and The Origins of Empire (OUP, 1998) amongst other publications.

1: The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Writing of Ireland's History in the Sixteenth Century
2: Composing counter-narratives in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
3: New Histories for a New Ireland
4: The 1641 Rebellion and Ireland's Contested Pasts
5: Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Histories of Ireland During the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries
6: Enlightenment Historians of Ireland and Their Critics
7: The Vernacular Alternative: Catholic and Protestant Popular Reconsiderations of Ireland's Early Modern History During the Age of Revolutions
8: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past: The Young Ireland Agenda, Dissident Views, and the Catholic Alternative
9: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past During the Later Nineteenth Century
10: Fresh Unionist Reappraisals of Ireland's History During the Early Modern Centuries
11: The Birth and Early Demise of a Liberal View of Ireland's Early Modern Past
12: The Failure of the Imagination Concerning Ireland's Past