Description
Book SynopsisA study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation -- .
Trade ReviewDawson's book… stands head and shoulders above anything so far published on this vexed subject… it also extremely timely…' -- .
Table of ContentsList of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Political Transition, peace-making and the past
Part 1 Cultural memory, trauma, and conflict in the Irish Troubles
1. Memory, myth, and tradition: Concepts of the past in the Irish Troubles
2. Trauma, memory, politics: Paradoxes of the Irish peace process
Part 2 Remembering Bloody Sunday
3. Public arenas, personal testimonies: The institution and contestation of British offical memory of Bloody Sunday
4. Trauma and life-stories: Survivor memories of Bloody Sunday
5. Widening the circle of memory: Human rights and the politics of Bloody Sunday commemoration
6. Counter memory, truth and justice: Bloody Sunday and the Irish peace process
Part 3 'The Forgotten Victims?' Border Protestants and the Memory of Terror
7. The Troubles on the Border: Ulster-British identity and the cultural memory of 'ethnic cleansing'
8. Giving voice: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and memories of the Troubles in the Irish peace process
9. Mobilizing memories: The Unionist politics of victimhood and the Good Friday Agreement
10. Remembrance, reconciliation, and the reconstruction of the site of the Enniskillen 'Poppy Day' bomb
Afterword
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