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R. Dudley Edwards (1909–1988)

Autor(a) de The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845-52

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http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1308766.html

This is essentially a narrative survey, based on exhaustive sampling of the surviving primary sources, of what happened politically in Ireland from the death of the seventh Earl of Kildare in 1513 to the Flight of the Earls in 1607. I am still getting my head around the various shifts in religious policy, particularly during the reign of Elizabeth I, but this gives a good skeleton on which to hang the meat of any future work I do.

I was less convinced by Dudley Edwards' subtitle, 'The Destruction of Hiberno-Norman Civilisation'. It is beyond dispute that in so far as there was such a thing, this period saw its destruction, but he doesn't really illustrate why or what Hiberno-Norman civilisation actually was. It would be more accurate to describe the book as tracking the growth of colonialism as the active British policy in Ireland, which it does very well.
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nwhyte | Sep 19, 2009 |
This book is referred to in "The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)" by Stuart McLean. He mentions that it, published in 1956, was "the first book-length study [on the Great Famine] to emerge from the decades following Ireland's independence".
 
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lightthatshinesagain | Nov 5, 2007 |

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7
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65
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2
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11
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