Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-Peace Process Ireland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780716530671)

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.

Author: Rebecca Graff-McRae
ISBN-10: 0716530678
ISBN-13: 9780716530671
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 27