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Ireland Since the Famine (1971) by FSL Lyons: A towering work The historian wisely included economic, social, constitutional and cultural themes about 5 hours ago
This great work came as a breath of fresh air to the young, immature Leaving Cert history student I was in the early 1970s. There was scarcely time to do more than dip into it while at school but it became a bible for the Irish history courses when I went to university. In his preface, FSL Lyons lamented that trying to write a synthesis of modern Irish history since the Famine was a bit like being “condemned to make bricks without straw”, and went on to explain: “For although a work of synthesis is long overdue, it is not until one settles in earnest to the job of trying to provide it that one realises how much specialist study needs to be undertaken.” ....