Remembering 1916 : The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland (Hardcover)

Introduction Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry; Part I. Memory and Commemoration: 1. Making sense of memory: coming to terms with conceptualisations of historical remembrance Guy Beiner; 2. Ritual, identity and nation: when the historian becomes the high priest of commemoration Dominic Bryan; 3. 'The Irish Republic was proclaimed by poster': the politics of commemorating the Easter Rising Roisin Higgins; Part II. Narratives: 4. Instant history: 1912, 1916, 1918 David Fitzpatrick; 5. Hard service: remembering the Abbey Theatre's rebels Fearghal McGarry; 6. Beyond the Ulster Division: West Belfast members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and service in the First World War Richard S. Grayson; 7. Remembering 1916 in America: the Easter Rising's many faces, 1919?63 David Brundage; Part III. Literary and Material Cultures: 8. The rising generation and the memory of 1798 Heather L. Roberts; 9. Cultural representations of 1916 Nicholas Allen; 10. Myth, memory and material culture: remembering 1916 at the Ulster Museum William Blair; Part IV. Troubled Memories: 11. Reframing 1916 after 1969: Irish governments, a national day of reconciliation, and the politics of commemoration in the 1970s Margaret O'Callaghan; 12. New roads to the Rising: the Irish politics of commemoration since 1994 Kevin Bean; 13. Ghosts of the Somme: the state of Ulster loyalism, memory work and the 'other' 1916 Jonathan Evershed; Index.