Memory Ireland

by Frawley, Oona

• ISBN13: 9780815632504
• ISBN10: 0815632509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-31
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Table of Contents

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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