Tag: revisionism
Revisionists Run Rampant with Leaving Cert History Syllabus
In his far-ranging Gript essay castigating the proposed new Leaving Cert history syllabus, the Iona's Institute's David Quinn posits that the syllabus carries an explicit anti Catholic agenda, where the students are shoe-horned into believing that the Catholic Church and groups...
Centre Right Duds: Can Ruth Dudley Edwards Stop Making Catherine Connolly Cool
One of the smoothest cakewalks in recent Irish political history is unfolding as we speak with Galway socialist Catherine Connolly running rhetorical rings around centrist contender Heather Humphreys in the penultimate days of Áras ’25. Unfazed by mutterings about dissident...
Revisionism Against the State: UCD’s Gentle Revolution and Irish Elite Formation
What are the contemporary ideological characteristics of the modern Irish state? The answer to such a question appears difficult to place in the complex history of the Republic's current statelet government yet may be studied with reference to the overlapping...
Violet Gibson: Left Revisionism Enters Silly Season
The scrapping of the historic barrel rang out across Merrion Square yesterday with an unveiling of a plaque to Violet Gibson, an oddball Anglo-Irish schizophrenic who failed to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. Born to the well heeled Baron of...