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Reply to Jeffrey Dudgeon on Peter Hart (2011, reposted Aug 2022)
Irish Political Review, 2011
Jeffrey Dudgeon supports the late Peter Hart’s analysis of the West Cork IRA during and after the War of Independence. Dudgeon made three specific observations in two IPR editions (Oct 2010, Sept 2011) in response to Jack Lane and to Brendan Clifford. In The IRA and its Enemies (1998) Hart alleged that sectarian motives accompanied the abduction and disappearance of three people in Ballygroman (north of Bandon near Ovens) and the shooting dead of ten more west of Bandon from 26 -29 April 1922. Dudgeon supports Hart’s reporting of these pre-Civil War killings and also Hart’s reconstruction of the 28 November 1920 Kilmichael Ambush. Hart called ambush commander, Tom Barry, a lying serial killer. Hart controversially concluded that the IRA fought a war of sectarian ethnic supremacy. I respond to Dudgeon’s Kilmichael Ambush remarks before looking at those on April 1922. I also comment on Dudgeon’s defence of a book inspired by Hart’s research, Gerard Murphy’s, The Year of Disappearances (2010). [Reposted Aug 2022 due to previous version not downloading as a readable PDF.] To read on.... download PDF See also here: ‘Distorting Irish History [One], the stubborn facts of Kilmichael: Peter Hart and Irish Historiography’ and ‘Distorting Irish History Two, the Road from Dunmanway’, on the April 1922 killings.
Doctoral Dissertation: Chapter 6 - The Political Thought of James Tully
In this chapter we will see how Tully’s philosophical commitments and social science methods cash out in defeasible critical surveys of practices and languages that set the context of practical social and political problems and their proposed solutions, and defeasible genealogical surveys that place those languages and practices in their larger context, so that we can have a perspicuous representation of how forms of subjectivity are shaped by historically specific and therefore contingent human conventions. Examples of the specific applications of his brand of public philosophy are imperialism and the rights of indigenous peoples. Yet, since I argue in the previous chapter that his justification of Foucauldian methods by Wittgensteinian social ontology is based on an inaccurate reading of Wittgenstein, the question remains whether this inaccuracy might create insurmountable philosophical problems for Tully. After a survey of Tully’s general political principles and how they cash out in real case studies, this chapter will argue that while Tully’s actual studies fit under the rubric of interrogating Foucauldian ‘limits’, they do so without doing too much violence to Wittgenstein’s concept of ‘pictures’, as feared in the previous chapter. While Tully was inaccurate in conflating ‘limits’ with ‘pictures’, his studies have not, in my view, suggested change to anything which might be part of the facticity of our being in the world - those ‘pictures’ which, as Hanna Pitkin says, the political theorist would be foolish to attempt to change.
Commentary, 1993
This is the second in a continuing series on the relationship between the broad concept of national security and a nations economy-a relationship which, as the author points out, attracted little attention in North America until recently. One example of its growing importance, however, is the establishment in the United States of an agency equal in status to and modeled on the powerful National Security Council; namely, the National Economic Council, "designed to be the arbiter of issues relating to economic security". In this Commentary, Mr. Samuel Porteous focuses on a particularly controversial aspect of economic security-"equity" and examines security implications stemming from the economic crises facing the developed world (jobless growth, for example, and increasing income disparities within the developed world itself). In the authors words, "As the economic changes marking the transition to the 'new economy' buffet nations and trading blocs, national and international leaders more than at any time since the Thirties will be forced to deal with the security repercussions of inequities both within their countries and between nations." Disclaimer: Publication of an article in the COMMENTARY series does not imply CSIS authentication of the information nor CSIS endorsement of the author's views.