Forgetful Remembrance

Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Guy Beiner, Ben-Gurion University) Beiner, Guy (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History

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Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants--and in particular Presbyterians--repeatedly tried to repress over two centuries discomfiting recollections of participation, alongside Catholics, in a republican rebellion in 1798.By exploring a rich variety of sources, Beiner makes it possible to closely follow the dynamics of social forgetting. His particular focus on vernacular historiography, rarely noted in official histories, reveals the tensions between professed oblivion in public and more subtle rituals of remembrance that facilitated muted traditions of forgetful remembrance, which were masked by a local culture of reticence and silencing.Throughout Forgetful Remembrance, comparative references demonstrate the wider relevance of the study of social forgetting in Northern Ireland to numerous other cases where troublesome memories have been concealed behind a veil of supposed oblivion.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-14
Mått155 x 232 x 34 mm
Vikt1 122 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor728
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198864196
UtmärkelserWinner of the 2020 Wayland D. Hand Prize Winner of the AHA 2019 George L. Mosse Prize Winner of the 2019 Katharine Briggs Award Winner of the 2019 Irish Historical Research Prize Honorable Mention for the 2018 James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize

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Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specializes in the study of remembering and forgetting, with a particular interest in the history of Ireland. He was a Government of Ireland scholar at University College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary scholar at the Central European University, and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the multi-prize-winning book, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory.

FiguresMapsAbbreviationsEpigraphsPreface: Forgetful RemembranceIntroduction: Sites of OblivionVernacular HistoriographySocial ForgettingThe Turn-OutPart I: Pre-Forgetting: Before 17981: Recycling Memory2: Initiating Counter-Memory3: Silencing4: Anticipating ForgettingPart II: Amnesty and Amnesia: The Aftermath of 17985: Wilful Forgetting6: Unforgivingness7: Exiling Memory8: Impenitence9: The Chimera of OblivionPart III: The Generation of Forgetting: The First Half of the Nineteenth Century10: Uninscribed Epitaphs11: Wilful Muteness12: Versified Recall13: Fictionalized Memory14: Hesitations in Coming Out15: Collecting Recollections16: Postmemory AnxietiesPart IV: Regenerated Forgetting: The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century17: Continued Disremembrance18: Excavating Memory19: Countering Neglect20: Imagined Reminiscence21: Cultural Memory and Social Forgetting22: Revivalism and Re-CollectingPart V: Decommemorating: The Turn of the Century23: Infighting24: Iconoclasm25: Rowdyism26: Recasting and Performing27: Rewriting and Staging28: Historical Disregard29: Re-CommemoratingPart VI: Restored Forgetting: The Short Twentieth Century30: Partitioned Memory31: Breaking Silence32: Unperceived Remembrance33: Troubled Forgetting34: NonconformismPart VII: Post-Forgetting: Into the Twenty-First Century35: Remembrance and Reconciliation36: Exhibiting Memory37: Countering Disremembering38: Disparities of EsteemPart VIII: Conclusion: Rites of Oblivion39: Dealing with the Past40: Social Forgetting Beyond Ulster41: Rights of ForgettingSelect Bibliography