Guy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is the author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory.

The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years. - Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review ""A book of impressive scholarship and striking originality."" - Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Field Day Review ""Guy Beiner here shows himself to be a historian of unusual talent."" - Marianne Elliott, Times Literary Supplement ""Based on massive research.... [Beiner] demonstrates effectively how orally transmitted local memories have contributed to historical knowledge about the 1798 French invasion of western Ireland, as well as much else about the Irish past."" - Choice ""Accessible, full of intriguing detail, and eminently teachable.... Superb, painstaking scholarship that makes lasting contributions to Irish studies and to cultural and historical studies writ large."" - Ray Cashman, New Hibernia Review

Guy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is the author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory.

The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years. - Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review ""A book of impressive scholarship and striking originality."" - Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Field Day Review ""Guy Beiner here shows himself to be a historian of unusual talent."" - Marianne Elliott, Times Literary Supplement ""Based on massive research.... [Beiner] demonstrates effectively how orally transmitted local memories have contributed to historical knowledge about the 1798 French invasion of western Ireland, as well as much else about the Irish past."" - Choice ""Accessible, full of intriguing detail, and eminently teachable.... Superb, painstaking scholarship that makes lasting contributions to Irish studies and to cultural and historical studies writ large."" - Ray Cashman, New Hibernia Review

Guy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is the author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory.

The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years. - Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review ""A book of impressive scholarship and striking originality."" - Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Field Day Review ""Guy Beiner here shows himself to be a historian of unusual talent."" - Marianne Elliott, Times Literary Supplement ""Based on massive research.... [Beiner] demonstrates effectively how orally transmitted local memories have contributed to historical knowledge about the 1798 French invasion of western Ireland, as well as much else about the Irish past."" - Choice ""Accessible, full of intriguing detail, and eminently teachable.... Superb, painstaking scholarship that makes lasting contributions to Irish studies and to cultural and historical studies writ large."" - Ray Cashman, New Hibernia Review