Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland - Couverture rigide

 
9780268101749: Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland
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ISBN 10 : 0268101744 ISBN 13 : 9780268101749
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2017

Synopsis

The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history--that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the past" remains near the top of the political agenda in Northern Ireland. The essays in this volume, by leading experts in the fields of Irish and British history, politics, and international studies, explore the ways in which competing "social" or "collective memories" of the Northern Ireland "Troubles" continue to shape the post-conflict political landscape.

The contributors to this volume embrace a diversity of perspectives: the Provisional Republican version of events, as well as that of its Official Republican rival; Loyalist understandings of the recent past as well as the British Army's authorized for-the-record account; the importance of commemoration and memorialization to Irish Republican culture; and the individual memory of one of the noncombatants swept up in the conflict. Tightly specific, sharply focused, and rich in local detail, these essays make a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature of history and memory. The book will interest students and scholars of Irish studies, contemporary British history, memory studies, conflict resolution, and political science.

Contributors: Jim Smyth, Ian McBride, Ruan O'Donnell, Aaron Edwards, James W. McAuley, Margaret O'Callaghan, John Mulqueen, and Cathal Goan.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jim Smyth is professor of Irish and British history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including, most recently, Cold War Culture: Intellectuals, the Media, and the Practice of History.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268101744
ISBN 13 
9780268101749
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
218
Éditeur
Smyth Jim
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