Life
Fellow and Dir. of Studies in History, Queen’s College, Cambridge;
author of attacks on Irish Revisionism whose essay on revisionism in Irish
Historical Review sparked in 1989 a round of controversial papers;
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Works
‘Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland’,
in Irish Historical Studies, 24 [var. XXVI], 106 (1989), pp.329-51;
Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield, and William Maley, eds., Representing
Ireland: Literature and the Origin of Conflict 1534-1400 (Cambridge
UP 1993); Bradshaw, and John Merritt [var. Morrill], eds., The British
Problem, c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago [Problems
in Focus] (London: Macmillan 1996), 334pp.; review of Michelle O’Riordan,
The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World (Cork UP 1990),
in Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, 1, 1 (Spring 1994),
pp.119-22 [see under Tom Dunne].
Also ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, in Fortnight Supplement [q.d.]; ‘Free Thought in Ireland’, with Fortnight 297 (July-Aug. 1991); see review of collection on Irish Rebellion of 1641, and replies to criticism of same by Seán O’Neacthain in columns of Times Literary Supplement.
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- L. P. Curtis, Jr., "The Greening of Irish History", Éire-Ireland, 29, 2 (Summer 1994), pp.7-29;
- "Irishman’s Diary" by Kevin Myers, in The Irish Times (11 July 1998).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)