[Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-peace Process Ireland] (By: Rebecca Graff-McRae) [published: September, 2010]

by Rebecca Graff-McRae

This book asks how the commemorations of the Easter Rising, the Battle of the Somme, the 1978 Rebellion, and the H-Block Hunger Strike have become incorporated into present politics in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. The book begins and ends with the Easter Rising. The construction of 1916 as the pivotal moment of Irish history, identity, and memory has had lasting consequences for the Irish definition of political conflict and how this is defined through commemoration. It argues that the ghosts of 1916 are in many ways the ghosts of 1998.

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First published September 21, 2010

Reviews

[Andy Hart · Rating 3 out of 5]

An accomplished work of importance to those working in the field, but I suspect it will confound all but the most dedicated reader. It is academic and far from accessible to the general reader.