to sanitise readers to the injustices and suffering bore by the Irish people during the long rule of the Crown. Bradshaw also accused Moody of denigrating Irish nationalism, which served to not only downplay the wrongs suffered by the Irish people, but to disparage those who fought against British rule and their achievements in finally winning Irish independence in 1922. Fennell accused Moody of writing history to “meet the needs of the establishment”, and claimed the idea that the Irish history was a long struggle for freedom from the British was not a “myth”, but a fact that Moody was attempting to suppress. The Australian historian Marnie Hughes-Warrington wrote the claim that Moody "…hoped to bring a about a revolution simply to denigrate the claims of Irish nationalists is not true". Hughes-Warrington stated that Moody was aware that the present always influenced one's evaluation of the past and she argued that he was attempting to do was find a way to look at the past that was objective and to understand Irish history on its own terms. In this regard, Hughes-Warrington maintained that Moody “…looked to science, which was seen to provide methods which could combat personal bias and render historical interpretations subject to external assessment and evaluation”, comparing Moody to the historians who take a “functionalist” line on Nazi Germany and the “Final Solution”, American historians who argued for giving slavery and racism a greater prominence in the teaching of American history, the “revisionist” historians of the French revolution and those historians who argue for a greater place in women in history. Notes Sources 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 1907 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Irish historians Revisionism (Ireland) Historians of the Land War Writers from Belfast Academics of Trinity College Dublin Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy