Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Contributors | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Introduction to Theories of Memory | |
Memory and History | p. 3 |
Toward a Theory of Cultural Memory in an Irish Postcolonial Context | p. 18 |
Remembrance and Forgetting in Early and Premodern Irish Culture | |
"the memorye of their noble ancestors": Collective Memory in Early Modern Ireland | p. 37 |
The Harp as a Palimpsest of Cultural Memory | p. 52 |
Modes of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting the Irish Rebellion of 1798 | p. 66 |
Women and the Survival of Archaeological Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Ireland | p. 83 |
Modernity, History, and Memory | |
Memory, Modernity, and the Sacred | p. 101 |
"In a Landlord's Garden": Synge and Parnell | p. 115 |
Embodying the Memory of War and Civil War | p. 129 |
De Valera's Historical Memory | p. 142 |
Coming Clean?: Remembering the Magdalen Laundries | p. 157 |
Producing Memory: A History of Commemoration and the Abbey Theatre | p. 172 |
Remembering to Forget: Queer Memory and the New Ireland | p. 184 |
9/11, the War on Terror, and the Irish Language | p. 195 |
Multiculturalization and Irish National Memory | p. 207 |
Afterword: Language, History, and Memory | |
The Great Forgetting | p. 221 |
Works Cited | p. 231 |
Index | p. 257 |
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