Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

I recently had the good fortune to meet up with Dr Tomás Finn of NUIG and got to talk to him about his research interests, specifically about his book on the Irish intellectual movement known as Tuairim. His book is now available in paperback from  Manchester University Press  and Amazon .  Prof Bryan Fanning has noted that 'Finn's documentation of the development of Tuarim adds to our understanding of the fifties and sixties' ( Studies 102; No 406) and Sarah-Anne Buckley has described the book as 'Meticulously researched, well-written and engaging - this is a book for all of us, a book that places issues to the fore and reforms ideas about the role of the 1950s in Irish historiography' ( The Journal of the Galway and Archaeological Society 65: 2013, 154). Rather than provide another review of the book, I've asked  Tomás to provide a bit of background to the work to act as a basic primer for those of us, like myself, who are quite astonished to find that I...

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