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Remembering 1916 : the Easter Rising, the Somme and the politics of memory in Ireland

Title: Remembering 1916 : the Easter Rising, the Somme and the politics of memory in Ireland / edited by Richard S. Grayson, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University Belfast.
Publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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xiii, 274 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The year 1916 witnessed two events that would profoundly shape both politics and commemoration in Ireland over the course of the following century. Although the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme were important historical events in their own right, their significance also lay in how they came to be understood as iconic moments in the emergence of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, politics, anthropology and cultural studies, this volume explores how the memory of these two foundational events has been constructed, mythologised and revised over the course of the past century. The aim is not merely to understand how the Rising and the Somme came to exert a central place in how the past is viewed in Ireland, but to explore wider questions about the relationship between history, commemoration and memory"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Richard 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 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 '98 / Heather 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.

Call Number

JFE 16-3990

ISBN

9781107145900
1107145902
9781316509272
1316509273

LCCN

2015045194

OCLC

932109986

Title

Remembering 1916 : the Easter Rising, the Somme and the politics of memory in Ireland / edited by Richard S. Grayson, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University Belfast.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover image

Chronological Term

Since 1916

Added Author

Grayson, Richard S., 1969- editor.

McGarry, Fearghal, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3990

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