Life
1910-1991; Anglo-Irish family settled in Co. Tipperary; nationalist history;
ed. Cambridge; political adviser to Charles Haughey in government; the
loss of his ‘clear unflinching gaze’ regretted by many; Martin
Mansergh, a son, is adviser to the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
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Works
The Irish Question 1840-1921 (London: Allen and Unwin 1965; rep.
1968; 3rd rev. edn. 1975); ‘Manufacturing Consent’, Fortnight,
350 (May 1996), pp.13-15.
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Criticism
David
Harkness, ‘Nicholas Mansergh: Historian of Modern Ireland’,
Études Irlandaises [hors série] (Automne 1994), pp.87-97.
Diana Mansergh, ed., Nationalism and Independence: Selected Irish Papers (Cork UP 1997), 264pp.
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Notes
The Irish Question (new edn. 1968) is cited as ‘the
first, and arguably still the best venture into Irish intellectual history’
in W. J. McCormack, Battle of the Books (1986), with the further
remark that its ‘chapter on romanticism of Young Ireland [is] especially
commendable.’ (p.40.)
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)