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 language | English |
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Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Number of pages | 709 |
Edition | First |
ISBN (Print) | 019874935X, 9780198749356 |
State | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Historiographie
- Memory
- Ireland
- Irlande
- Mémoire collective