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| Titre : | "You can't grab anything with a closed fist" : Reflections on Ulster Protestant Identity in Derek Lundy's Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland (2015) |
| Auteurs : | Billy GRAY, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 40 n 1 2015) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 285-304 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | In Ireland and within Irish studies itself, considerable effort has been expended in the endeavour to disclose the complex interaction between past conflicts and contemporary attempts to recoup their significance in the present. Derek Lundy's Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland a work of non-fiction published in 2006, is an invaluable and timely contribution to our understanding of the selectivity of national memory and the indelible link that exists between familial remembrance and its communal counterpart. A generically hybrid work, part historical investigation, part memoir, Lundy's text combines a blend of meticulous research with autobiographical snapshots, interspersed with an exploration of the connection between personnal and collective identities. Claiming that "the lives of my ancestors resonate in the very core of Ulster history" Lundy uses the lives of three such ancestors as a prism through which to examine the standard, received stories of myth and history so prominent within the Ulster Protestant tradition. Moreover, my article will seek to show how Lundy, through an engagement with his own personal background as a member of an Ulster Protestant family, positions himself in a metaphorical space where individual memory, cultural allegiance and concepts of the self merge |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Rennes |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Billy Gray |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
