BRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast. He has written many books on Irish history, including A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (2012).

• TitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1 Past and Present 1 The Past and the Present: History, Identity and the Peace Process Part 2 Commemoration 2 St Patrick’s Day: Commemoration, Conflict and Conciliation, 1903–20133 Commemorating the Siege of Derry and Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown: Parades, Pilgrimages and Politics4 Commemorating the Two World Wars, 1919–2017: Remembering, Forgetting and Remembering Again Part 3 Identities 5 Irish Identity, Past and Present6 ‘The Lost Tribes of Ireland’: Diversity, Identity and Loss Among the Irish Diaspora7 President Barack Obama, Fulmouth Kearney and the Irish in America Today Part 4 Politics, 1885–1923 8 The 1885 and 1886 General Elections: A Milestone in Irish History9 Southern Protestant Voices During the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War: Reports from Church of Ireland Synods NotesSelect Bibliography

‘One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past.’

BRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast. He has written many books on Irish history, including A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (2012).

• TitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1 Past and Present 1 The Past and the Present: History, Identity and the Peace Process Part 2 Commemoration 2 St Patrick’s Day: Commemoration, Conflict and Conciliation, 1903–20133 Commemorating the Siege of Derry and Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown: Parades, Pilgrimages and Politics4 Commemorating the Two World Wars, 1919–2017: Remembering, Forgetting and Remembering Again Part 3 Identities 5 Irish Identity, Past and Present6 ‘The Lost Tribes of Ireland’: Diversity, Identity and Loss Among the Irish Diaspora7 President Barack Obama, Fulmouth Kearney and the Irish in America Today Part 4 Politics, 1885–1923 8 The 1885 and 1886 General Elections: A Milestone in Irish History9 Southern Protestant Voices During the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War: Reports from Church of Ireland Synods NotesSelect Bibliography

‘One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past.’

BRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s and Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast. He has written many books on Irish history, including A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (2012).

• TitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1 Past and Present 1 The Past and the Present: History, Identity and the Peace Process Part 2 Commemoration 2 St Patrick’s Day: Commemoration, Conflict and Conciliation, 1903–20133 Commemorating the Siege of Derry and Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown: Parades, Pilgrimages and Politics4 Commemorating the Two World Wars, 1919–2017: Remembering, Forgetting and Remembering Again Part 3 Identities 5 Irish Identity, Past and Present6 ‘The Lost Tribes of Ireland’: Diversity, Identity and Loss Among the Irish Diaspora7 President Barack Obama, Fulmouth Kearney and the Irish in America Today Part 4 Politics, 1885–1923 8 The 1885 and 1886 General Elections: A Milestone in Irish History9 Southern Protestant Voices During the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War: Reports from Church of Ireland Synods NotesSelect Bibliography

‘One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past.’