History and Memory in Modern Ireland

by Ian McBride (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521793667
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/08/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1967, Ian McBride is Lecturer at King's College London, having previously been Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Durham, 1996–2000. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, University College London, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Dr McBride's publications include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997), Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998) - which was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs memorial prize - and, co-edited with Tony Claydon, Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–c.1850 (1998).

Table of Contents

1. 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.

Editorial Reviews

"The academic historian will welcome [the book]...it should find a place on the bookshelves of any serious historian interested in Irish history and the mythologies that do their utmost to confuse that history." Military History

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