(6-AUDIO CD DISC SET) Revenge and Reconciliation in Modern Ireland ~ History Winter Lecture Series 2012

Join University of Washington Professor of History George K. Behlmer for a fascinating three-part series on "Revenge and Reconciliation in Modern Ireland." The poet W.B. Yeats famously declared, "Great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start." Until very recently, tiny Ireland has loomed large as a fractured land--a land driven by religious, political and economic strife. What made Ireland for at least three centuries the most troubled corner of Western Europe? Why did the spectacular failure of Irish rebellions only harden revolutionary resolve? Was Great Britain in fact the wellspring of Ireland's epic misery? Now that the bullets and bombs have mostly disappeared from the streets of Northern Ireland, has genuine "peace" been achieved there? These are among the vexing questions to be addressed in Professor Behlmer' s lectures as we examine the ways in which competing myths about the Irish past continue to roil the present. Audio CD #1 & #2 ~ (Recorded January 17, 2012)