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'Keneally has been persistent in writing about history and in diversifying his historical subject matter. As one of the Irish descendants who “have been accused of an elephantine memory of their past wrongs”(Keneally 1971: 46), Keneally shows “unusual courage”(Kramer 1967: 19) in tackling the hopelessly commonplace history of Australia. There are of course personal predilections and technical conveniences, which Keneally, being a talkative and candid man, is not ashamed to vocalize in very general terms:
I think writers will always be attracted by the past. It is less confusing than the present. Historians have already reduced it to some understandable unity for us. Their gift is beyond estimation. (1975a: 29) (118)
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Keneally’s View of History and Historical Writing
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