History and memory in modern Ireland / edited by Ian McBride.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McBride, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History.

Ireland--Historiography.

Ireland.

Historiography--Ireland--History--20th century.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This volume addresses a subject of vital importance to the study of Irish history--literature and politics. Although collective memory and commemoration has attracted much attention from British, French and American scholars, this is the first major study of the relationship between history and memory in Ireland--closing a remarkable gap in the literature, considering the frequency with which Unionists as well as nationalists have invoked the past, erected monuments and observed anniversaries. This book helps define the main concepts and issues in an emerging field of inquiry.

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.

Notes:

"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"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521790174

0521793661

OCLC:

46640811