1916 in 1966
Subtitle: commemorating the Easter Rising
By: edited by Mary E. Daly and Margaret O'Callaghan.
Contributors: Daly, Mary E.; O'Callaghan, Margaret.; Royal Irish Academy.
Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781904890270
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Anniversaries, etc; Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Historiography; Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Nineteen sixteen in nineteen sixty-six; Commemorating the Easter Rising
Description: Looks at how the Irish government reinvented the message of 1916 through the official golden jubilee celebrations of the Rising. This book explores the organization of various unofficial commemorations in Northern Ireland in 1966 and the significance of these for nationalist and unionist politics in the mid-1960s. Not only does the book analyze the golden jubilee of the Rising from a political perspective, however, it also examines the 1966 anniversary from the perspectives of drama, performance, youth culture and history. Contributors to the book, in addition to Mary E. Daly and Margaret O'Callaghan, are: Diarmaid Ferriter, Rebecca Graff-McRae, Roisin Higgins, Carole Holohan, Michael Laffan, Catherine O'Donnell, and Anthony Roche.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-354).