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Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, borders and the union state

When

Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:00 - 11:30

Where

Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow

Tickets

€75 (Full Day incl. Lunch)

Professor Alvin Jackson will be giving the Parnell Lecture at the 2018 Parnell Summer School.

Judging Redmond and Carson is the first dual and comparative biography of Redmond and Carson - the first to assess them as contemporaries would have done. It uses both new approaches and much new evidence to shed fresh light on their sometimes fraught private lives, their professional and political achievements, and their stands on violence and war. The result is a strikingly original reassessment of the two men and their legacies.

'[Jackson is] one of the finest historians writing about Irish and British history, and [this book] adds to his already considerable reputation … it represents a more nuanced and mature approach to the conflicts that shaped the Irish state and the state of Northern Ireland as each approach their centenary … if we can approach the past with toleration, respect and understanding, then perhaps we can approach our challenges of the present in the same way as well’.  An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD, Royal Irish Academy, March 2018.

Professor Alvin Jackson will be giving the Parnell Lecture at the 2018 Parnell Summer School. His talk is titled ‘Redmond and Carson: Bloodshed, borders and the union state’. For more information on the Parnell Summer School and to book your ticket, please visit the website of The Parnell Society.

 

 

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