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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]
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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"?