History and Memory in Modern Ireland

Abstract

1. Introduction: memory and national identity in modern Ireland Ian McBride 2. Martyrdom and memory in the seventeenth century Alan Ford 3. Remembering 1798 Roy Foster 4. Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity Niall O Ciosain 5. The star-spangled shamrock: memory and meaning in Irish America Kevin O'Neill 6. 'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not': Joyce, monuments and memory Luke Gibbons 7. 'For God and for Ulster': the Ulstermen on the Somme David Officer 8. Commemoration in the Irish Free State: a chronicle of embarrassment David Fitzpatrick 9. Monument and trauma: varieties of remembrance Joep Leerssen 10. Northern Ireland: commemoration, elegy, forgetting Edna Longley 11. 'No lack of ghosts': memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland D. George Boyce.