September Books 3) What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Ireland

[nwhyte]

3) What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Ireland, by Diarmaid Ferriter

Comments

[srk1]

Have you read the Alvin Jackson essay "What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912?" from Niall Ferguson's Virtual History book? I found it fascinating.

[nwhyte]

Oh yes. A much more interesting point of departure than the 1916 Rising!

[anonymous]

I too am somewhat interested in Alternate History as concept. I have looked at that book in shops, but was struck by how it seems not so much to be a collection of essays as a collection of partial transcripts of a radio discussion.

[nwhyte]

Yes, that's exactl;y what it is.

[xnamkrad]

Also very interested in AH - especially in connection to Ireland, but when I saw this book, it didn't 'grab' me. Glad I saved the money.

[wwhyte]

I think Des O'Malley was Donough O'Malley's nephew, not son.

[nwhyte]

Indeed, you're right. Will change it.

[rfmcdpei]

Didn't Lenin say that the biggest problem with the Easter Rising was that it didn't happen two years later? A general European revolution would have been interesting, in a horrible way.