Remembering the Troubles : contesting the recent past in Northern Ireland

Remembering the Troubles : contesting the recent past in Northern Ireland /

"The historian A.T.Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history--that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, 'dealing with the past' remains near the top of the po...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Social conflict > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century > Historiography.
Political violence > Northern Ireland > History > 20th century > Historiography.
Collective memory > Northern Ireland.
Memory > Social aspects > Northern Ireland.
Memorials > Northern Ireland.
HISTORY / Europe / Ireland.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
Collective memory.
Memorials.
Memory > Social aspects.
Politics and government.
Politics and government > Historiography.
Social conflict > Historiography.
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Nordirlandkonflikt
Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998 > Historiography.
Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1998-
Irlande du Nord > Politique et gouvernement > 1968-1998 > Historiographie.
Irlande du Nord > Politique et gouvernement > 1998-
Northern Ireland.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From Popular Mythology to History and Memory / Jim Smyth
  • The Truth about the Troubles / Ian McBride
  • The Provisional IRA : History, Politics, and Remembrance / Ruan O'Donnell
  • Beating the Retreat on a Contested Past? : The British Army and the Politics of Commemoration in Northern Ireland / Aaron Edwards
  • "Climbing over Dead Brambles"? : Politics and Memory within Ulster Loyalism / James W. McAuley
  • The Past Never Stands Still : Commemorating the Easter Rising in 1966 and 1976 / Margaret O'Callaghan
  • Remembering and Forgetting : The Official Republican Movement, 1970-1982 / John Mulqueen
  • Milltown Cemetery and the Politics of Remembrance / Jim Smyth
  • Experiencing the Troubles / Cathal Goan.

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