Troubles of the past?

History, identity and collective memory in Northern Ireland

James McAuley, Máire Braniff, Graham Spencer

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781526154200
• Thema: Sciences sociales
• Thema: Sociologie

This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, but also the ways in which the key themes that emerge are harnessed and mobilised to political and social effect in the present. The book draws deeply on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to add significantly to existing knowledge surrounding the debates over memory and the ways it is used in Northern Irish society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures
• Contributors
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Through a single lens? Understanding the Troubles of the past, present and future
• 1: Agonistic remembering and Northern Ireland's 1968 @ 50
• 2: Pogroms, presence, myth and memory: August 1969 and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland conflict
• 3: ‘Touching the third rail?’ The problems of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland
• 4: Collective memory, ethno-national forgetting and the limits of history in misremembering the past
• 5: Irish republicanisms and radical nostalgia
• 6: Irish republican commemoration and narratives of legitimacy
• 7: Ulster loyalism, memory and commemoration
• 8: ‘Remember the women’: memory-making within loyalism
• 9: Visual memory at sites of troubles past: participatory and collective memories in Croatia and Argentina
• 10: The tears of the mothers: conflict and memory in comparison
• 11: The problem of legacy and remembering the past in Northern Ireland
• Index