Remembering the Year of the French Irish Folk History and Social Memory

Name: Remembering the Year of the French Irish Folk History and Social Memory
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ISBN: 9780299218249

ISBN-10: 0299218244

ISBN-13: 9780299218249

Edition: 2007

Authors: Guy Beiner, James S. Donnelly, Thomas Archdeacon

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Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's oral traditions, this work reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone unnoticed by historians.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 5/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Guy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is the author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Phonetic Note


Introduction: Recycling the Dustbin of History


To Speak of Ninety-Eight



Collecting Memory



Oral History and Social Memory



Irish Folklore Collections



Richard Hayes and Thee Last Invasion of Ireland



Ancillary Folk History Sources



Folk History



History-Telling



Practitioners of Folk History



Time and Calendar



Democratic History



Who Were the Men of the West?



Multiple Heroes in Folk Historiographies



Who Were the Women of the West?



Commemorating History



Spheres and Mediums of Remembrance



Topographies of Folk Commemoration



Souvenirs



Ceremonies, Monuments, and Negotiations of Memory



Mediations of Remembrance



Memory and Oblivion


Conclusion: Alternative History


Archaeologies of Social Memory


Epilogue: Commemorative Heritage


Remembrance in the Late Twentieth Century


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index