19th Irish Conference of Historians, Trinity College Dublin 8-10 June 1989. €30.00.
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Part One
The Culture and Ideology of Irish Franciscan Historians at Louvain 1607-1650 by Bernadette Cunningham 11
The Theatre of Diversity: Historical Criticism and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century France by Eamon O’Flaherty 31
Honour and American Republicanism: A Neglected Corollary by Bertram Wyatt-Brown 49
‘Rousseau’s Stutter’: The French Revolution, Philosophy and the History of the Future by Dorinda Outram 66
The Tedium of History: An Approach to Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage (1814) by W.J. McCormack 77
‘A shadowy Narrator’: History, Art and Romantic Nationalism in Ireland 1750-1850 by Luke Gibbons 99
Genealogies of Englishness: Literary History and Cultural Criticism in Modern Britain by Stefan Collini 128
‘Repulsives vs Wromantics’: Rival Views of the English Civil War by Ian Green 146
The Futility of History: A Failed Experiment in Irish Education by David Fitzpatrick 186
Part Two
History as a Scholarly Discipline and Magistra Vitae by Ivan Berend 198
Polite Letters and Clio’s Fashions by John Lukacs 199
A Commentary on John Lukacs’s ‘Polite Letters’ by Aidan Clarke 211