Evi Gkotzaridis


Evi Gkotzaridis is a historian whose work focuses on 20th century Irish and Greek history. Her critically acclaimed book Trials of Irish History gave the first detailed analysis of the revisionist debate in Ireland. She has also authored a book called A Pacifist's Life and Death, the first historical biography detailing the life, time and achievements of Grigorios Lambrakis. Lambrakis was an athletic champion, doctor and politician.
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Reviews

Scholarly reviews of Trials of Irish History were positive overall with occasional criticism of her writing style. Matthew Kelly described her book as "underpinned by a remarkable historical intelligence". Bill Kissane of the London School of Economics said the book "defends the revisionists". Brian Girvin of the University of Glasgow wrote that it was a "stimulating book on the Irish revisionist debate." David Fitzpatrick of Trinity College in Dublin described it as "quirky" but was "an exceptionally lively, generous, intelligent, wide-ranging and well-informed tribute to a much maligned but formidable lineage of historians." Martyn Powell described it as "anti-nationalistic" in tone.

Books

● Η Ζωή και ο Θάνατος του Γρηγόρη Λαμπράκη. Ένας Ειρηνιστής στη Δίνη του Εμφύλιου Διχασμού από την Εύη Γκοτζαρίδη, ΚΨΜ, 2023
● A Pacifist's Life and Death: Grigorios Lambrakis and Greece in the Long Shadow of Civil War by Evi Gkotzaridis, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2016
● Trials of Irish History: Genesis and Evolution of a Reappraisal 1938—2000 by Evi Gkotzaridis, Routledge, 2006

Articles

  • “Irish Revisionism and Postmodernism,” ETUDES IRLANDAISES, No.26:1, Spring 2001, pp. 131–57. DOI : 10.3406/irlan.2001.1561
  • “Irish Revisionism and Continental Theory. An Insight into an Intellectual Kinship,” THE IRISH REVIEW, Vol. 27, No. 1, Summer 2001, pp. 121–139.
  • “Revisionist Historians and the Modern Irish State: the Conflict between the Advisory Committee and the Bureau of Military History. 1946-1966,” IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES, Vol.35, No.137, May 2006, pp. 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021121400004661
  • “Revisionism in the 20th century: Bankruptcy of a Concept and Permanence of a Practice?” THE EUROPEAN LEGACY, Vol. 13, No. 6, October 2008, pp. 725–741. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770802358112
  • “What is Behind the Concept: Fragmentation and Internal Critique in the Revisionist Debates of Greece and Ireland,” RICERCHE STORICHE, A. XLI No.1, Jan-April 2011, pp. 87–110. http://digital.casalini.it/10.1400/169087
  • “Who Will Help Me to Get Rid of this Man? Grigorios Lambrakis and the Non-Aligned Peace Movement in Post-Civil War Greece: 1961-1964,” JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES, Vol. 30, No. 2, October 2012, pp. 299–338.
  • ‘Who Really Rules this Country': Collusion between State and Deep State in Post- Civil War Greece and the Murder of Independent MP Grigorios Lambrakis. 1958-1963,” Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2017, pp. 646–673, DIPLOMACY AND STATECRAFT. DOI : 10.1080/09592296.2017.1386458
  • “The 1940’s and their Afterlives. Resistance, Collaboration and the Enduring Problem of Communism,” in Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe, edited by Balazs Apor & John Paul Newman, PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Publication : 15 June 2021. http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781612496405
  • “Modern Irish Historiography, Politics, and Ireland’s Colonial Status,” in Ireland and Ukraine. Essays in Comparative History and Politics, edited by Stephen Velychenko, Joseph Ruane, & Ludmilla Hrynevych, IBIDEM/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. Publication: 2022. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/ireland-and-ukraine/9783838216652