ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book brings the concerns and interests and prejudice to the diverse range of subjects that go to make Irish historiography. It is therefore no surprise that revisionism has generated much controversy and heated debate. There is also the view expressed by some of those interviewed that a specific ideology and/or a specific community is the target in all of this. But whilst recognising that such sentiment does indeed exist, and with some justification, there is no all-cof thought. And revisionist ideological assumptions have underpinned the validity and legitimacy of partition and the Northern Ireland state. In conclusion, from 1970 to the present republican, nationalist, unionist, loyalist and, indeed, Marxist orthodoxy has crumbled as a result of the Northern conflict. And the intellectual and ideological basis of this orthodoxy has been sundered by the emergence of revisionism.
