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• Winner of Shortlisted, Michel Deon Prize, Royal Irish Academy.

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A landmark contribution to Irish historiography, it is essential reading for anyone interested in how Irish history has been remembered and used to serve present purposes down through the centuries. * Marian Lyons, The Irish Times * Thanks to Canny's compendious survey , histories which made a limited impact when first they appeared will now gain more. Those who reflected on the mayhem sought to fit it into patterns already provided by humanist, classical, providential or apocalyptic templates. All this Canny traces methodically. * Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement * This is an ambitious and excellent account of Irish historical writing on a specific era and is, essentially, a reflection on the development of an enduring strand of Irish intellectual life over four centuries. * John Gibney, History Ireland * The book provides a brilliant picture of Irish historical writings as sharing continuities across the longue duree even as they remained heterogeneous, contested and deeply of their moment. * Sarah Covington, The Renaissance Quarterly *

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Now a Professor Emeritus, Nicholas Canny was Professor of History at the NUI Galway, Founding Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (OUP, 2001), which won the Irish Historical Research Prize, 2001, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World (OUP, 2011), and The Origins of Empire (OUP, 1998) amongst other publications.

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