The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in IrelandRoy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles