History and memory in modern Ireland /

edited by Ian McBride.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: McBride, Ian.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Notes:Several of the chapters in this volume originated as papers presented at the Eleventh Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, which met in Durham in April 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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ISBN:0521790174
0521793661 (pbk.)
Table of Contents:
Martyrdom, history and memory in early modern Ireland /Alan Ford
Remembering 1798 /Roy Foster
Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity /Niall Ó Ciosáin
Star-spangled shamrock : memory and meaning in Irish America /Kevin O'Neill
'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not' : Joyce, monuments and memory /Luke Gibbons
'For God and for Ulster' : the Ulsterman on the Somme /David Officer
Commemoration in the Irish Free State : a chronicle of embarrassment /David Fitzpatrick
Monument and trauma : varieties of remembrance /Joep Leerssen
Northern Ireland : commemoration, elegy, forgetting /Edna Longley
'Not lack of ghosts' : memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland /D. George Boyce.