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History and memory in modern Ireland /

Contributor(s): McBride, Ian.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521790174; 9780521790178:; 0521793661 (pbk.).Subject(s): Historiography -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Memory | Ireland -- Historiography | Ireland -- History | Ireland -- AnniverseriesDDC classification: 941.50072
Contents:
Martyrdom, history and memory in early modern Ireland / Alan Ford -- Remembering 1798 / Roy Foster -- Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity / Niall Ó Ciosáin -- Star-spangled shamrock : memory and meaning in Irish America / Kevin O'Neill -- 'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not' : Joyce, monuments and memory / Luke Gibbons -- 'For God and for Ulster' : the Ulsterman on the Somme / David Officer -- Commemoration in the Irish Free State : a chronicle of embarrassment / David Fitzpatrick -- Monument and trauma : varieties of remembrance / Joep Leerssen -- Northern Ireland : commemoration, elegy, forgetting / Edna Longley -- 'Not lack of ghosts' : memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland / D. George Boyce.
Summary: Discussing the relationship between the past and the present in Irish society, this text outlines the ways in which Irish identities have been shaped by oral tradition, icons and images, rituals, and re-enactments.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 941.50072 MCB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0045683
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Several of the chapters in this volume originated as papers presented at the Eleventh Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, which met in Durham in April 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Martyrdom, history and memory in early modern Ireland / Alan Ford -- Remembering 1798 / Roy Foster -- Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity / Niall Ó Ciosáin -- Star-spangled shamrock : memory and meaning in Irish America / Kevin O'Neill -- 'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not' : Joyce, monuments and memory / Luke Gibbons -- 'For God and for Ulster' : the Ulsterman on the Somme / David Officer -- Commemoration in the Irish Free State : a chronicle of embarrassment / David Fitzpatrick -- Monument and trauma : varieties of remembrance / Joep Leerssen -- Northern Ireland : commemoration, elegy, forgetting / Edna Longley -- 'Not lack of ghosts' : memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland / D. George Boyce.

Discussing the relationship between the past and the present in Irish society, this text outlines the ways in which Irish identities have been shaped by oral tradition, icons and images, rituals, and re-enactments.

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