What If? by Diarmaid Ferriter

What If? by Diarmaid Ferriter

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History did not have to work out the way it actually did. Ferriter looks at twenty events in twentieth-century Irish life and wonders how they might have been different: What if Joyce and Beckett had stayed in Ireland? What if Britain had blocked Irish immigration in the 1950s? What if there had been no 'Late Late Show'?

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What If? by Diarmaid Ferriter

Historydid not have to work out the wayit actually did. Ferriter looks attwenty events intwentieth-century Irish life and wonders how they might have been different: What if Joyce and Beckett had stayed in Ireland? What if Britain had blocked Irish immigration in the 1950s? What if there had been no 'Late Late Show'?

Professor Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland’s leading historians. He is Professor of Modern Irish History in University College Dublin and has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish history. He is the author of a number of acclaimed books on Irish history, including The Transformation of Ireland 1900–2000, Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera and Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland, and was a researcher and writer with the Dictionary of Irish Biography, 1998–9. He is also a regular contributor to RTÉ, anchoring the successful radio series What If? from 2006 to 2008 and authoring and presenting the television series Lovers of Liberty in 2010.

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ISBN 13 9780717139903
ISBN 10 0717139905
Title What If?
Author Diarmaid Ferriter
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Gill
Year published 2006-04-25
Number of pages 304
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