The politics of Irish memory
Subtitle: performing remembrance in contemporary Irish culture
By: Emilie Pine
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780230247413
Subjects: Historiography; Memorials; Social aspects; Anniversaries; Civilization; Memory; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 185-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Past traumas: representing institutional abuse; title: The remembered self: Irish memoir, past and present selves; title: The exiled past: the return of the Irish emigrant; title: Embodied memory: performing the 1980-1 hunger strikes; title: In memoriam: remembering the great war; title: Haunted pasts; exorcising the ghosts of Irish culture.