Theodore William Moody

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Theodore William Moody (1907-1984) was an Irish historian. He was Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1940 to 1977, when he became professor emeritus[1].

In the 1930s he

“ ...resolved to initiate a 'scientific' historiographical revolution that would give historians the power to dissolve the popular myths that kept the different communities of Ireland divided.[2] ”

[edit] References

  • Mulvey H. F., Theodore William Moody (1907-1984): an Appreciation, Irish Historical Studies, XXIV, 1984-5.
  • F. S. L. Lyons, R. A. J. Hawkins editors, Ireland under the Union: Varieties of Tension: Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Dictionary of Ulster Biography
  2. ^ Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2000), p. 232.

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