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COMMEMORATING THE IRISH CIVIL WAR
HISTORY AND MEMORY, 1923-2000 |
| By: |
Anne Dolan, Dr Jay Winter, Paul Kennedy |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521026989 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521026987 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2006 |
| Series: |
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare No. 13 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This book explores the tensions between memory and forgetting in twentieth-century Ireland. |
| Synopsis: |
After civil war, can the winners commemorate their victory, hailing their conquering heroes with the blood of their former comrades still fresh on their boots? Or should they cover themselves in shame and hope that the nation soon forgets? In this book, Anne Dolan explores the tensions between memory and forgetting in twentieth-century Ireland. By examining the memory of winning the Irish Civil War, she discusses the extent to which it has been used to serve party political ends, where private grief finds consolation when the dead have fallen from political favour, and how the dead are remembered when no one wanted to fight the war. The book addresses the Irish Civil War at its most public point: at the statues and crosses, and in the ritual and rhetoric of commemoration. It will be of central interest to all students and scholars of European history and politics. |
| Illustrations: |
8 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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