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Making peace with the past? : memory, trauma and the Irish Troubles / Graham Dawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Graham, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Social aspects--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Collective memory--Northern Ireland.
- Collective memory.
- Autobiographical memory--Social aspects--Northern Ireland.
- Autobiographical memory.
- Reconciliation.
- Social conflict--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
- Social conflict.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Northern Ireland--History--1968-1998.
- Northern Ireland.
- Northern Ireland--History--1998-.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: political transition, peace-making and the past 1
- Part I Cultural memory, trauma and conflict in the Irish Troubles 31
- 1 Memory, myth and tradition: concepts of the past in the Irish Troubles 33
- 2 Trauma, memory, politics: paradoxes of the Irish peace process 57
- Part II Remembering Bloody Sunday 87
- 3 Public arenas, personal testimonies: the institution and contestation of British official memory of Bloody Sunday 89
- 4 Trauma and life-stories: survivor memories of Bloody Sunday 122
- 5 Widening the circle of memory: human rights and the politics of Bloody Sunday commemoration 153
- 6 Counter-memory, truth and justice: Bloody Sunday and the Irish peace process 178
- Part III 'The forgotten victims'? Border Protestants and the memory of terror 207
- 7 The Troubles on the Border: Ulster-British identity and the cultural memory of 'ethnic cleansing' 209
- 8 Giving voice: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and memories of the Troubles in the Irish peace process 233
- 9 Mobilizing memories: the Unionist politics of victimhood and the Good Friday Agreement 261
- 10 Remembrance, reconciliation and the reconstruction of the site of the Enniskillen 'Poppy Day' bomb 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719056710
- 0719056713
- OCLC:
- 183914738
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