Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9781107145900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 290 str.

Richard Grayson; Fearghal McGarry

Opis

A pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916.

Recenzje

'Grayson and McGarry have provided a collection of work that is insightful and filled with new scholarship.' Kevin Braam, H-War

Spis treści

Introduction Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry; Part I. Memory and Commemoration: 1. Making sense of memory: coming to terms with conceptualisations of historical remembrance Guy Beiner; 2. Ritual, identity and nation: when the historian becomes the high priest of commemoration Dominic Bryan; 3. 'The Irish Republic was proclaimed by poster': the politics of commemorating the Easter Rising Roisín Higgins; Part II. Narratives: 4. Instant history: 1912, 1916, 1918 David Fitzpatrick; 5. Hard service: remembering the Abbey Theatre's rebels Fearghal McGarry; 6. Beyond the Ulster Division: West Belfast members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and service in the First World War Richard S. Grayson; 7. Remembering 1916 in America: the Easter Rising's many faces, 1919–63 David Brundage; Part III. Literary and Material Cultures: 8. The rising generation and the memory of 1798 Heather L. Roberts; 9. Cultural representations of 1916 Nicholas Allen; 10. Myth, memory and material culture: remembering 1916 at the Ulster Museum William Blair; Part IV. Troubled Memories: 11. Reframing 1916 after 1969: Irish governments, a national day of reconciliation, and the politics of commemoration in the 1970s Margaret O'Callaghan; 12. New roads to the Rising: the Irish politics of commemoration since 1994 Kevin Bean; 13. Ghosts of the Somme: the state of Ulster loyalism, memory work and the 'other' 1916 Jonathan Evershed; Index.