Originally Posted by
Lewis
There is a spectrum that goes across the worth of the subject area and how bad a writer the historian is. You start with people who have to be good writers to make their stuff stand out in crowded fields, and you end up with the frauds who write about the subject itself or race or some other shite and who couldn't tell you their names without confusing or contradicting themselves. Irish history sits more towards the latter end of that spectrum (precise position dependent on how much of a whinger they are).