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| Titre : | Probing the boundaries of Irish memory : from postmemory to prememory and back (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Guy BEINER, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 39 n 154 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 296-307 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | It has long been accepted that memory plays a prominent role in the construction of Irish identities and yet historians of Ireland were relatively late in addressing the vogue for memory studies that emerged in the 1980s. Its arrival as a core theme in Irish historical studies was announced in 2001 with the publication of History and memory in modern Ireland, edited by Ian McBride. The volume originated in one of the many academic conferences held in the bicentennial year of the 1798 rebellion, which was part of a decade of commemorations that listed among its highlights the tercentenary of the battle of the Boyne, the sesquicentenary of the Great Famine, and the bicentenaries of the United Irishmen, the Act of Union, and Robert Emmet's rising. The following years produced a boom of studies on Irish memory, which has anticipated another decade of commemotations |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Guy Beiner |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
