Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland

English, Richard,Graff-McRae, Rebecca

ISBN 10: 0716530686 / ISBN 13: 9780716530688

Published by Irish Academic Press, 2010

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Synopsis:

This book asks how the commemorations of the Easter Rising, the Battle of the Somme, the 1798 Rebellion and the H-Block Hunger Strike have become incorporated into present politics in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. The book begins and ends with the Easter Rising. The construction of 1916 as the pivotal moment of Irish history, identity and memory has had lasting consequences for the Irish definition of political conflict and how this is defined through commemoration. In Remembering and Forgetting 1916, it is argues that the ghosts of 1916 are in many ways the ghosts of 1998.

About the Author: Rebecca Graff-McRae completed her undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Queen s University, Belfast. She currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This is her first book.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Remembering and Forgetting 1916: ...
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good