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This book considers not just Irish history, but also how perspectives and treatments of that history have effected modern Ireland, north and south. While knowledge of history can help explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of some of the myths and misuses of our history can further help create a framework for understanding our current political and social challenges. AUTHOR: Brian M. Walker is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen's University of Belfast. He is a former director of the Institute of Irish Studies and a former member of the politics school at Queen's. He has served as chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and president of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He is the author of various books on Irish history and politics, such as A political history of the two Irelands: from partition to peace and Dancing to history's tune: history, myth and politics in Ireland. He lives in Belfast.

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One notices how people are gripped by the past ... remembering the past ... feeding on the past. -- Michael Cassidy Brian Walker challenges embedded myths and perceptions, peels away the real from the imagined, presents and confronts truths that we in Ireland and the United Kingdom need to know if the future is to be unchained from a past that cannot be changed but needs to be remembered differently. -- Mary McAleese No country in the world discourses more about its history: no country makes more ill use of it. In this book Brian Walker unpicks the complicated tale and, in a triumph of calm lucidity, gives us the truth. -- Professor Paul Bew

One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past. -- Michael Cassidy Brian Walker challenges embedded myths and perceptions, peels away the real from the imagined, presents and confronts truths that we in Ireland and the United Kingdom need to know if the future is to be unchained from a past that cannot be changed but needs to be remembered differently. -- Mary McAleese No country in the world discourses more about its history: no country makes more ill use of it. In this book Brian Walker unpicks the complicated tale and, in a triumph of calm lucidity, gives us the truth. -- Professor Paul Bew

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BRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast. He has written many books on Irish history, including A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (2012).

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