Imagining Ireland's Pasts

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.

• 1: The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Writing of Ireland's History in the Sixteenth Century2: Composing counter-narratives in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries3: New Histories for a New Ireland4: The 1641 Rebellion and Ireland's Contested Pasts5: Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Histories of Ireland During the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries6: Enlightenment Historians of Ireland and Their Critics7: The Vernacular Alternative: Catholic and Protestant Popular Reconsiderations of Ireland's Early Modern History During the Age of Revolutions8: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past: The Young Ireland Agenda, Dissident Views, and the Catholic Alternative9: Re-imagining Ireland's Early Modern Past During the Later Nineteenth Century10: Fresh Unionist Reappraisals of Ireland's History During the Early Modern Centuries11: The Birth and Early Demise of a Liberal View of Ireland's Early Modern Past12: The Failure of the Imagination Concerning Ireland's Past

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.