Troubles of the Past?: History, Identity and Collective Memory in Northern Irela

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This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then harnessed to mobilise politics in present day society.

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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.

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Memory politics spans experiences and disciplines, bridging the gap between theory and politics. This book brings together the views of academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining the direction of Northern Irish society. Taking a flexible and multi- disciplinary approach the book provides a thorough review and new analysis of material on collective memory and Ireland. This is considered through the lens of comparative, theoretical and case study material. Issues coming under the gaze of authors include: the analysis of current research trends and methodologies of memory; symbols of commemoration and sites of memory, both physical and intellectual; the role of forgetting, the recall and re-memorising of the 'great events' of Irish history; the origins and nature of the Troubles; conflicts of culture and culture wars, the politics of commemoration and socialisation and the politics of heritage and reconciliation. Overall, this volume draws on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to provide crucial understandings of not only of 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.

Author Biography

James W. McAuley is Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies at the University of HuddersfieldMire Braniff is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Ulster UniversityGraham Spencer is Professor in Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth

Table of Contents

Introduction: through a single lens? Understanding the Troubles of the past, present and future – James W. McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer1 Agonistic remembering and Northern Ireland's 1968 @ 50 – Chris Reynolds2 Pogroms, presence, myth and memory: August 1969 and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland conflict – Shaun McDaid3 'Touching the third rail?' The problems of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland – Eamonn O'Kane4 On notions of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and the place of historians – Stuart Aveyard5 Collective memory, ethno-national forgetting and the limits of history in misremembering the past – Aaron Edwards6 Irish republicanisms and radical nostalgia – Stephen Hopkins7 Irish republican commemoration and narratives of legitimacy – Kris Brown8 Ulster loyalism, memory and commemoration – James W. McAuley and Neil Ferguson9 Remember the women: memory-making within loyalism – Lisa Faulkner-Byrne, John Bell and Philip McCready10 Visual memory at sites of troubles past: participatory and collective memories in Croatia and Argentina – Máire Braniff11 The tears of the mothers: conflict and memory in comparison – Catherine McGlynn12 The problem of legacy and remembering the past in Northern Ireland – Graham SpencerIndex

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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.

Details ISBN1526154196 Short Title Troubles of the Past? Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1526154196 ISBN-13 9781526154194 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-01-31 Subtitle History, Identity and Collective Memory in Northern Ireland Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2023-01-31 UK Release Date 2023-01-31 Illustrations 5 black & white illustrations Author Dr Máire Braniff Edited by Máire Braniff Pages 264 DEWEY 941.6 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-01-30 We've got this

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