How do you chronicle Ireland’s recent history?
9 September - 10 mins
Podcast Series
Moncrieff
Technically speaking, anything that is in the past can be categorized as history.
But, more often than not, historians deal with events that they exist at a great remove from.
That is not the case for Diarmaid Ferriter’s latest book ‘The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020’.
So, does chronicling recent events present a challenge for historians, and what can we say definitively about Ireland in the last 30 years?
Diarmaid Ferriter joins Seán to discuss.
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