"Kearney's work has brilliantly illuminated, from a distinctive comparative perspective, Anglo-Irish relations over several centuries. Kearney collects his seminal articles, framed by historiographical reflections on his unique experience of 'doing history' in four countries: Ireland, England, Scotland, and the United States." J. J. Lee, New York University "Hugh Kearney has been a major influence on the study ... Read moreof Irish history since 1959. He now combines reflections upon the intellectual stimulants he experienced at Cambridge, Dublin, Sussex, Edinburgh, and Pittsburgh with thoughts on the tensions occasioned in past and present by competing claims of civic, ethnic and religious loyalties."
Nicholas Canny, Academic Director, The Moore Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. Show Less