Ghosts of the Somme : commemoration and culture war in Northern Ireland /

"In 2016, as the Irish Republic marked the hundredth anniversary of its sacrificial founding by the martyrs of Easter week, Ulster Loyalists were making final preparations to mark the centenary of a blood sacrifice of equal and opposite significance for contemporary Irish politics: that of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Evershed, Jonathan (Author, 1989-)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Army. > Division, 36th.
1914-2099
Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 > Centennial celebrations, etc.
World War, 1914-1918 > Northern Ireland > Anniversaries, etc.
World War, 1914-1918 > Ireland > Influence.
Collective memory > Northern Ireland.
Group identity > Northern Ireland.
Political culture > Northern Ireland.
Bataille de la Somme, France, 1916 > Anniversaires.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Irlande du Nord > Anniversaires.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Irlande > Influence.
Mémoire collective > Irlande du Nord.
Identité collective > Irlande du Nord.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
Anniversaries.
Collective memory.
Group identity.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Ireland > Politics and government > 21st century.
Irlande > Politique et gouvernement > 21e siècle.
France.
Ireland.
Northern Ireland.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • (Re)theorizing commemoration
  • "What does it mean to follow a ghost?": locating "the field" and the ethics of empathy
  • Policy, peace-building, and the past during the decade of centenaries
  • Peace as defeat: loyalism and the culture war in the "new" Northern Ireland
  • "Our culture is their bravery": commemoration and the culture war
  • The ghost dance: memory work and loyalism's conflicted hauntology
  • "Dupes no more"? Loyalist commemoration and the politics of peace-building
  • Postscript: "All changed, changed utterly"?

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