Lisa Godson is Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joanna Brück is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

• Introduction Joanna Brück and Lisa Godson Approaching the material and visual culture of the 1916 RisingSection 1: The Fabric of the RisingBrian Hand The fabric of a deathless dream: a short introduction to the origins and meanings of the 1916 tricolour flagJane Tynan The unmilitary appearance of the 1916 RebelsFranc Myles Beating the retreat: the final hours of the Easter RisingDaniel Jewesbury The constitution of a state yet to come: the unbroken promise of the Half-ProclamationBill Mc Cormack What is a forgery or a catalyst? The so-called ‘Castle Document’ of Holy Week 1916Ciara Chambers The ‘aftermath’ of the Rising in cinema newsreels Section 2: The Affective Bonds of the RisingOrla Fitzpatrick Portraits and propaganda: photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in The Catholic BulletinJack Elliott ‘After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting but not before’. Ephemera and the construction of personal responses to the Easter RisingJoanna Brück Nationalism, gender and memory: internment camp craftwork, 1916-1923Laura McAtackney Female prison autograph books: (re)remembering the Easter Rising through the experiences of Irish Civil War imprisonmentBrian Crowley Pearse’s profile: the making of an iconSection 3: Revivalism and the RisingElaine Sisson – Dublin Civic Week and the materialisation of historyMary Ann Bolger Redesigning the Rising: typographic commemorations of 1916Róisín Kennedy The Capuchin Annual: visual art and the legacy of 1916, one generation onHilary O’Kelly National Revival dress and 1916Section 4: Remembering the RisingLar Joye and Brenda Malone Displaying the nation: the 1916 exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland (1932-1991)Elizabeth Crooke A story of absence and recovery: the Easter Rising in museums in Northern IrelandPat Cooke History, materiality and the myth of 1916Damian Shiels Place versus memory: forgetting Ireland’s sites of independence?Catherine Marshall ‘Of all the trials not to paint…’. Sir John Lavery’s painting High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Roger Casement 1916Justin Carville ‘Dusty fingers of time’: photography, materials memory and 1916Lisa Godson Religion, ritual and the performance of memory in the Irish Free StateAfterword Nicholas Allen Lost city of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of Empire

'A short review cannot do justice to the variety of topics in and quality of contributors to Making 1916. The decision to have short case studies gives the volume a lively energy and it bursts with ideas and insights...it is a real achievement to have created a book of essays of such substance and originality.'Australasian Journal of Irish Studies