Life
Author of The Year of Liberty: The Story of the Great Irish Rebellion
of 1798 (London:Houghton & Stoddard 1969; Panther 1972), representing
the rebellin as the outcome of govermental abuses and the deorganised
fanaticism of a priest-led jacquerie; also Meeting with Remarkable
Trees (1997).
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Quotations
Who Fears to Speak?: ‘who were these peasants who could stand
up to twelve hours of continuous fighting, who could charge time and time
again into the cannon’s mouth …?’ (p.215; cited in Canavan,
op. cit., p.161.)
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Notes
Colm Tóibín offers criticisms of the standpoint taken
in The Year of Liberty in ‘New Ways to Kill Your Father: Historical
Revisionism’, in Karl-Heinz Westarp and Michael Böss, eds., Ireland: Towards new Identities? (Aarhus UP 1998), pp.28-36; cites
in Tony Canavan, reviewing rep. edn., in Books Ireland, Summer
1998, p.161.
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