“ETHNIC CLEANSING”, THE IRISH WARS OF INDEPENDENCE (1919-23), AND ACADEMIC INTERPRETATIONS AND RESPONSES.

Description

After 1980, the nationalist struggle for independence in
the 1920s was reinterpreted as a sectarian conflict.
Presented by academic historians, new evidence
confirmed that unremembered, sectarian conflict had raged
across southern Ireland leading to the “ethnic cleansing” of
Protestants. This panel discusses how and why this new
narrative emerged without verifiable evidence. All of the
panelists are experts in the field and in their different ways
critical of the prevailing historical consensus sometimes
known as ‘revisionism’, but perhaps more accurately
identified as a counter-insurgency historiography directed
against republicanism. Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh lectures in
history at St Mary’s University College, Belfast. Niall Meehan is
the Head of Journalism at Griffith College, Barry Keane is a
respected teacher of history and published independent
scholar and John Regan teaches history at the University of
Dundee. This event will be live streamed from Glór na
Mona, Gael-Ionad Mhic Ghoill via
www.facebook.com/glor.mona and a small number of
invited guests will be in attendance

Period	6 Aug 2021
Event title	2021 August Féile Belfast
Event type	Workshop
Location	Belfast, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International