History and Memory in Modern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780521793667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 292 str.

Ian McBride

Opis

This volume addresses a subject of vital importance to the study of Irish history--literature and politics. Although collective memory and commemoration has attracted much attention from British, French and American scholars, this is the first major study of the relationship between history and memory in Ireland--closing a remarkable gap in the literature, considering the frequency with which Unionists as well as nationalists have invoked the past, erected monuments and observed anniversaries. This book helps define the main concepts and issues in an emerging field of inquiry.

Recenzje

'This collection of essays, from a variety of perspectives, challenges assumptions and provides fresh ideas on the study of memory and its interactions with history, whether documented, oral or visual. The book is enhanced by excellent illustrations.' James Kelly, St. Patrick's College

Spis treści

1. Introduction: memory and national identity in modern Ireland Ian McBride; 2. Martyrdom and memory in the seventeenth century Alan Ford; 3. Remembering 1798 Roy Foster; 4. Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity Niall O Ciosáin; 5. The star-spangled shamrock: memory and meaning in Irish America Kevin O'Neill; 6. 'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not': Joyce, monuments and memory Luke Gibbons; 7. 'For God and for Ulster': the Ulstermen on the Somme David Officer; 8. Commemoration in the Irish Free State: a chronicle of embarrassment David Fitzpatrick; 9. Monument and trauma: varieties of remembrance Joep Leerssen; 10. Northern Ireland: commemoration, elegy, forgetting Edna Longley; 11. 'No lack of ghosts': memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland D. George Boyce.