Published 2 years ago

‘The past is never past’: Ireland’s history of political violence, and how to deal with it

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Michael Ignatieff will deliver the annual Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Thursday. He says the only way to control the past is to understand it in all its complexity and ambiguity. In the US, in Ireland, in France, in lots of other countries, revolutionary traditions are volatile and can be used to tip the democratic wagon.

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‘The past is never past’: Ireland’s history of political violence, and how to deal with it

Unthinkable: Author and academic Michael Ignatieff is in Dublin this week exploring how revolutionary history ‘can be used to tip over the democratic wagon’

2 years ago·Dublin, Ireland

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