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Who fears to speak of '98'? : commemoration and the continuing impact of the United Irishmen / Peter Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anniversaries.
- Ireland--History--Rebellion of 1798--Anniversaries, etc.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Belfast, Northern Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Rebellion of 1798 was one of the most crucial events in modern Irish history, and the bicentenary commemorations throughout Ireland in 1998 provided much new understanding of an issue that has, down the years, been as divisive as it has been formative. Peter Collins provides here an absorbing and sensitively handled account of the changing nature of how the rebellion has been commemorated over the last 200 years. The author has adopted something of a 'warts and all' approach: resentment within Unionist and Loyalist communities and the hostility of the Catholic Church are covered e
- Contents:
- Who Fears to Speak of '98?; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgement; Preface; The Contest of Memory - the Nineteenth Century; The 1898 Centenary; '98 Commemoration in the Twentieth Century; The Bicentenary in the North; The Bicentenary in the South; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-908448-32-6
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