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Transforming 1916 [electronic resource] : meaning, memory and the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter rising / Roisín Higgins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Cork, Ire. : Cork University Press, c2012. 2012) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xi, 275 p.) :) digital fileISBN:
  • 9781908634238
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 941.50821 23
LOC classification:
  • DA962 .H54 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The official commemoration -- Chapter 2. Alternatives to the official commemoration -- Chapter 3. "The other place": commemoration in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 4. Calling up the dead: pageants and performance -- Chapter 5. Where Nelson's pillar was not: the memorial sites of the jubilee -- Chapter 6. From history into art -- Chapter 7. 'What to do with their lovely past?' Promoting the commemoration abroad -- Epilogue. Toward 2016 -- Bibliography -- Notes and References -- Index.
Summary: The fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising has been remembered as a moment of unrestrained triumphalism which fuelled divisions between unionists and nationalists. Indeed there exists in Ireland a dual memory through which 1966 has become as mythical and misunderstood as 1916. David Trimble has written that 1916 had a particular legacy for the North, as the 50th anniversary of the rebellion started the destabilisation of Ulster. For Trimble, the orgy of self-congratulation that accompanied the commemoration had a devastating impact on the position of moderate politics in Northern Ireland.
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.

Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The official commemoration -- Chapter 2. Alternatives to the official commemoration -- Chapter 3. "The other place": commemoration in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 4. Calling up the dead: pageants and performance -- Chapter 5. Where Nelson's pillar was not: the memorial sites of the jubilee -- Chapter 6. From history into art -- Chapter 7. 'What to do with their lovely past?' Promoting the commemoration abroad -- Epilogue. Toward 2016 -- Bibliography -- Notes and References -- Index.

The fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising has been remembered as a moment of unrestrained triumphalism which fuelled divisions between unionists and nationalists. Indeed there exists in Ireland a dual memory through which 1966 has become as mythical and misunderstood as 1916. David Trimble has written that 1916 had a particular legacy for the North, as the 50th anniversary of the rebellion started the destabilisation of Ulster. For Trimble, the orgy of self-congratulation that accompanied the commemoration had a devastating impact on the position of moderate politics in Northern Ireland.

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