Talking stones : the politics of memorialization in post-conflit Northern Ireland /
If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 9781782384083 1782384081 9781785333415 1785333410 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors? ; Chapter 1 Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialization ; Chapter 2 The Armalite and the Paintbrush ; Chapter 3 The 'Landscape of Memorialization' in Belfast ; Chapter 4 The 'Memory Makers' and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles ; Chapter 5 The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden ; Chapter 6 The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee ; Chapter 7 The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme.
- Chapter 8 The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden Chapter 9 Dissecting Consensus ; Chapter 10 The Memory of the Dead ; Appendix A: List of Memorials ; Appendix B: Emblems and Flags ; Bibliography; Index.