Diarmaid Ferriter - professor Modern Irish History at UCD

[Passionateheart]

He's got great praise for his new TV series and his "What If" series on radio was interesting!

[Design for Life]

Diarmuid's Dad is Noel Ferriter retired Principal of St. Peters BNS Greenhills Dublin. His brother is barrister Cian Ferriter.

Cheers, I thought as much. He's a dead ringer for his da!

Noel's brother was a teacher as well.

[Cruimh]

Copy of "Judging Dev" just arrived - very much looking forward to reading it.

[Cael]

It marks the end of Revisionist Era.

There is now no need to re write Irish History to use as a weapon against the Provos.

Ferriter has enough savvy to keep on the right side of the establishment without sacrificing all of his critical faculties regarding Ireland's attempts to find her place amongst the Nations of the World.

Certainly what was known for the last 30 years as the "revisionist historian," no longer has a raison d'etre - since the surrender of PIRA and its incorporation into the bourgeois regime. But, sadly, thats not to say we are at the end of the Revisionist Era. There are very deep social and economic divisions in todays Irish society. The function of Irish history departments, from now on, will be to "manufacture consent" for the neo-liberal bourgeois regime and try to discredit any democratic alternative.

[Catalpa]

Certainly what was known for the last 30 years as the "revisionist historian," no longer has a raison d'etre - since the surrender of PIRA and its incorporation into the bourgeois regime. But, sadly, thats not to say we are at the end of the Revisionist Era. There are very deep social and economic divisions in todays Irish society. The function of Irish history departments, from now on, will be to "manufacture consent" for the neo-liberal bourgeois regime and try to discredit any democratic alternative.

Well there is an element of that in Historiography no matter what age we look at

- after all Historians are products of their times and write with an audience in mind.

I think what was invidous about the recent crop of revisionism is the way other people & some historians were villified and denigrated by the media establishment for daring to come out with alternative accounts of past events.

[Cael]

Well there is an element of that in Historiography no matter what age we look at

- after all Historians are products of their times and write with an audience in mind.

I think what was invidous about the recent crop of revisionism is the way other people & some historians were villified and denigrated by the media establishment for daring to come out with alternative accounts of past events.

Yes, thats certainly true, a chara, the "story" is not in hi-story for nothing. But I'd have to say that Raymond Crotty, for example, got a fair amount of abuse and side-lining for his economic history, and he didn't support the PIRA in any shape or form.

[Design for Life]

Ferriter is on TV3 now on Vincent Browne.

[Cruimh]

I enjoyed reading this

Revisionism and The Revisionist Controversy

Still trying for a copy of Father Bradshaw's article.

[Twin Towers]

Cheers, I thought as much. He's a dead ringer for his da!

Noel's brother was a teacher as well.

Dead ringer indeed and Noel was a wonderful teacher.