Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland - Softcover

Grayson, Richard S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316509273 ISBN 13: 9781316509272

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916.

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About the Authors

Richard Grayson is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War (2009) and edited At War with the 16th Irish Division: The Staniforth Letters, 1914–18 (2012). He has engaged widely with community groups on First World War remembrance especially the 6th Connaught Rangers Research Project. An associate member of the First World War Centenary Committee in Northern Ireland, he contributed to BBC NI's Ireland's Great War, co-edits www.irelandww1.org and chairs the Academic Advisory Group for the Digital Projects run by the Imperial War Museums.

Fearghal McGarry is Reader in Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. His research focuses on modern Ireland. A new edition of his account of the rebellion, The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916, has just been published. Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising (2011), his edited collection of firsthand testimony by revolutionaries, has recently been adapted for the stage by Jimmy Murphy for the Abbey Theatre, and will tour the UK in 2016. His latest book is The Abbey Rebels: A Revolution, Lost (2015). He is working on a number of projects related to the 1916 centenary, including the development of a major interpretive centre at Dublin's General Post Office.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316509273
• ISBN 13: 9781316509272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290