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Article: The mind of a synthetic historian.(The World of Geoffrey Keating History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland)(Book Review)
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- Irish Literary Supplement
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- March 22, 2002
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BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM
The World of Geoffrey Keating History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000, $55.00
ANTHONY D.SMITH IN The Ethnic Origins of Nations proposed that "Nations need myths and pasts if they are to have a future, and such pasts cannot be forged out of nothing." This premise resounds in Bernadette Cunningham's provocative study, The World of Geoffrey Keating, History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland.
The main focus for Cunningham, the Deputy Librarian at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, is Keating's seminal work, Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (Compendium of wisdom ...