Aidan Beatty is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Scholar-in-Residence at the School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University.
April 18, 2016
Irish historians – and Irish people in general – are currently revisiting important moments in their national past as part of the hundred-year anniversaries of the Easter Rising and subsequent War of Independence and Civil War. Donald Akenson’s new book also seeks to revisit and revise a formative moment in the Irish past, albeit one that has been mostly forgotten: the emergence in the 1830s of a distinctly Irish variant of apocalyptic Evangelical Protestantism.