http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/495/rachel-e-wallaace Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:58:53 -0400 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:58:53 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/565/ronan-bennetts-the-catastrophist-paralleling-ireland-and-congo By Rachel E. Wallaace - In The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett draws on events in Ireland to frame the political situation in the Congo and depicts political parallels between the two countries. Simultaneously he uses the reporting of these events to attack the “culture of aloofness based on middle class complacency,” as he criticises the revisionist style of historical writing which adopted a detached, non-committal approach to ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland (Bennett 1994: 55). Moreover, Bennett also refers to the situation in Ireland to accentuate an overall theme of disconnection and division... Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/565/ronan-bennetts-the-catastrophist-paralleling-ireland-and-congo