The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory

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The Shadow of a Year History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora se฀ ries฀ed฀ i฀ tors James S. Donnelly, Jr. Thomas Archdeacon The Shadow of a Year The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory John Gibney The University of Wisconsin Press Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through support from the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2013 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gibney, John, 1976– The shadow of a year: the 1641 rebellion in Irish history and memory / John Gibney. p. cm.—(History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28954-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-28953-9 (e-book) 1. Ireland—History—Rebellion of 1641—Historiography. 2. Ireland—Historiography. I. Title. II. Series: History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. DA943.G42 2013 941.506—dc23 2012010169 I admired the histories of the late Professor J. C. Beckett, especially the clarity of his writing, and when we met and I told him so, he was glad. As he thanked me, he remarked, “Of course, they’re prejudiced,” with a very sly twinkle. What this has always seemed to me to imply is that there is no such thing as a “true” history. Each is a version of what has taken place, and everybody who writes is coming from somewhere. John McGahern ...