Forgetful remembrance: social forgetting and vernacular historiography of a rebellion in Ulster

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Abstract

'Forgetful Remembrance' examines what happens when communities endeavour to forget embarrassing events in their past. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants - in particular Presbyterians - tried to repress for more than two centuries discomforting recollections of participation, alongside Catholics, in a republican rebellion in 1798. By exploring a rich variety of sources, Beiner makes it possible to closely follow the dynamics of social forgetting.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Number of pages709
EditionFirst
ISBN (Print)019874935X, 9780198749356
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Historiographie
  • Memory
  • Ireland
  • Irlande
  • Mémoire collective

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