Description
Book SynopsisThis 2001 volume addresses a subject of vital importance to the study of Irish history, literature and politics, and is the first major study of its kind. Examining pivotal moments in Irish history, it investigates the ways in which they have been recalled, commemorated and mythologised.
Trade Review'… a highly impressive work.' History
'There is much to be learned from the authors in this collection … this book is a commendable and balanced attempt to relate perceived memory to actual history in the current political context.' Irish Democrat
'McBride is to be commended for compiling his universally contentious History and Memory in Modern Ireland.' Irish Political Studies
'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
Table of Contents1. 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.
