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Victors get to write history. The European Commission’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has taken advantage of that opportunity in his newly-released La grande illusion. Journal secret du Brexit. Sadly the English translation is not due out until October and my French has decayed too much for me to digest his 500 page account in any reasonable amount of time, even if I could get my hands on a copy. But the English language reviews have picked out many telling anecdotes. Perhaps our readers of the French press will fill in other tidbits.
Barnier’s tome is important not just as a detailed account from one of the few who has a comprehensive view of the talks but also by the fact that he’s flirting with entering the race for President of France next year. By contrast, the UK’s negotiations were afflicted not just by regime change in the form of the ouster of Theresa May but also the revolving door of the Foreign Minister and Brexit Secretary posts. And the drip-drip-drip of ba
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Sputnik International
The case for rethinking Ireland and Empire
Updated / Monday, 19 Apr 2021
14:48 The very different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written.
Analysis:
The different experiences of Ireland as a partitioned island has greatly shaped how Irish history is written, ensuring a tradition of history framed with a South/North division, or few explicit investigations of how British colonial policies shaped it.
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Recent months have seen a flurry of media coverage on the involvement of Irish people in overseas colonialism, ranging from the insightful, to the insipid and the incendiary. As scholars of Empire working on the margins of Irish history, we welcome the renewed focus, public and scholarly, on Ireland s imperial pasts.