Remembering the Year of the French
Subtitle: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780299218201
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Folklore; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Europe - Ireland; Folklore & Mythology; Revolutionary; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Folklore and history; French Expedition to Ireland, 1796-1797; History; Ireland; Popular culture
Description: "Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving between the study of historical events - the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798 - and folkloric representations of those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone largely unnoticed by historians."--Jacket.