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This book arrives on foot of a decade of commemorations. Contemporary Ireland was founded during the fractious years 1912-1923. From the signing of the Ulster Unionists' Solemn League and Covenant to the partitioning of the country and subsequent Civil War in the Irish Free State, a series of events shaped Ireland for the century to come. Not least of these was World War I. This volume, edited by John Horne, features essays by leading historians, journalists, civic activists and folklorists. The outstanding body of scholarship offers an array of new views in the incendiary debate on how to remember a divided past. The book is organised into three sections: histories, memories and commemorations. The first section picks through the backgrounds of war and violence in the European and Irish revolutionary contexts. In the second section personal histories drawn from community and family memories are told. The third section contains the most heated contributions on the dangers and opportunities of commemorations. This collection is framed around a ten year period, yet it takes the reader towards a richer understanding whole of the twentieth century, allowing for an open and creative engagement with the past of war and revolution.

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Ireland

Stephen Ireland

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Publié par	Royal Irish Academy
Date de parution	20 mars 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908996268
Langue	English

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T OWARDS C OMMEMORATION
Ireland in War and Revolution, 1912-1923
John Horne and Edward Madigan (eds)
Towards Commemoration: Ireland in war and revolution, 1912-1923
First epublished 2014
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Edward Madigan
SECTION 1 : HISTORIES
1 Violence and War in Europe and Ireland, 1911-14
William Mulligan
2 The Strange Death of Liberal Ireland: William Flavelle Monypenny s The Two Irish Nations
Paul Bew
3 Parallel Lives, Poles Apart: Commemorating Gallipoli in Ireland and Australia
Stuart Ward
4 More than a Curious Footnote : Irish Voluntary Participation in the First World War and British Popular Memory
Catriona Pennell
5 1916 and Irish Republicanism: between Myth and History
Fearghal McGarry
6 Ireland and the Wars After the War, 1917-23
John Horne
SECTION 2: MEMORIES
7 Two Traditions and the Places Between
Paul Clark
8 Church of Ireland Great War Remembrance in the South of Ireland: a Personal Reflection
Heather Jones
9 The Long Road
Tom Hartley
10 Somme Memories
Ian Adamson
11 Rediscovery and Reconciliation: the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association
Tom Burke
12 Charley Bourne, Jack Ford and the Green Fields of France
Brian Hanley
SECTION 3: COMMEMORATIONS
13 Irish Varieties of Great War Commemoration
Keith Jeffery
14 Historians and the Commemoration of Irish Conflicts, 1912-23
David Fitzpatrick
15 Beyond Glory? Cultural Divergences in Remembering the Great War in Ireland, Britain and France
Jay Winter
16 Divisions and Divisions and Divisions: Who to Commemorate?
Anne Dolan
17 Beyond Amnesia and Piety
Fintan O Toole
18 Lest We Forget: Commemoration Fever in France and Ireland
Pierre Joannon
Conclusion
John Horne
Acknowledgements
Most of the essays contained in this volume are based on papers given at a conference entitled Ireland in the Decade of the Great War, 1912-1923: Towards Commemoration , which was held in Monaco in October 2011. The event was staged under the auspices of the TCD Centre for War Studies and the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco, and was funded by means of a generous benefaction received through the Trinity Foundation. The same benefaction helped with the production of this book. It was a fruitful gathering of historians and people professionally concerned with commemoration from across Ireland, Britain, continental Europe and the US, and the chapters of the book benefited from two days of intense discussions. The editors extend particular thanks to Mary Apied and Ellen Hanley of the Trinity Foundation, and to Judith Gantley of the Princess Grace Irish Library for their assistance in organising the conference. The event simply could not have taken place without their local knowledge, energy and organisational skill. We are also very grateful to Mrs Paul Gallico and to the board of trustees of the Princess Grace Irish Library for their support. We would particularly like to acknowledge the hospitality of His Serene Highness, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and the practical help extended by Mme Anne-Marie Boisbouvier of the Prince s Cabinet. We would also like to express our sincerest gratitude to all those who attended the conference and contributed to the book. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the dedication and professionalism of the editorial team at the Royal Irish Academy, with whom it has been a pleasure to work.
John Horne and Edward Madigan August 2012
Notes on Contributors
Ian Adamson, OBE , is a retired community paediatrician and well known in Northern Ireland for his political, civic and cultural work. He is founder chair of the Ulster-Scots Language Society, a leading figure in the modern revival of Ulster-Scots, and has published widely on Ulster history, language and culture. A member of Belfast City Council from 1989 until 2011, he was lord mayor from 1996 to 1997, and served as high sheriff of Belfast in 2011. He is active in a wide variety of community groups and associations, and was a founding figure of the Somme Association. He is presently the senior adviser on history and culture to Lord Bannside, the former First Minister of Northern Ireland, Dr Ian Paisley.
Paul Bew received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, and has been professor of politics at Queen s University, Belfast, since 1991. He is a cross-bench peer serving on the London Local Authority Bill Select Committee, and acts as secretary to the All-Party Group on Archives. He is also an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has written articles for The Times and the Guardian , and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 s Today programme. He is the author of two Thomas Davis Lectures, which were broadcast on RT and subsequently published. His monograph Enigma: a new life of Charles Stewart Parnell was published in 2012 by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin. He is the editor of A Yankee in de Valera s Ireland (Dublin, 2012), the memoir of David Gray, US minister to Ireland during the Second World War.
Tom Burke, MBE , is a founding member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association, a history society that researches, presents and preserves the history of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the First World War. He was a member of the Journey of Reconciliation Trust, the volunteer group responsible for the Island of Ireland Peace Park at Messines in Belgium. In August 2004 he was awarded an honorary MBE for his contribution to the British-Irish peace process. He has acted as a guide/adviser to former Irish president Mary McAleese on her visits to Wytschaete, Belgium, in June 2007 and Gallipoli in March 2010. His publications include The 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) Divisions at the Battle of Wijtschate-Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917 (Dublin, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association, 2007), along with several articles on military history in History Ireland , Stand To! (journal of the Western Front Association) and The Irish Sword . He is currently pursuing an M.Litt. degree in military history at University College, Dublin.
Paul Clark presents the news programmes UTV Live and UTV Live Tonight in Northern Ireland. He has made a number of programmes about Ireland and the Great War, most of which have been broadcast during Remembrance Week, in November. In the documentaries, he has examined the legacy of the Great War in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Anne Dolan lectures in modern Irish history at Trinity College, Dublin. Her publications include Commemorating the Irish Civil War: history and memory, 1922-2000 (Cambridge, 2003) and (with Cormac O Malley) No surrender here! The Civil War papers of Ernie O Malley, 1922-1924 (Dublin, 2007). She is currently working on a study of violence and killing in Ireland in the decade of the Great War.
David Fitzpatrick is professor of modern history at Trinity College, Dublin. Among other topics he has written various articles on Irish participation in the Great War and Irish military history, and has edited a volume of essays, Ireland and the First World War , published by Trinity History Workshop in 1986. He edited the Workshop s fifth volume, Terror in Ireland, 1916-1923 (Dublin, 2012), published by Lilliput Press. His biography of Louis MacNeice s father, Solitary and wild : Frederick MacNeice and the salvation of Ireland (Dublin, 2011), was also published by Lilliput Press.
Brian Hanley lectures in history at University College, Dublin. He is the author of The IRA, 1926-1936 (Dublin, 2002) , (with Scott Millar) The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party (Dublin, 2009) and The IRA: a documentary history, 1916-2005 (Dublin, 2010).
Tom Hartley has been active in politics for forty-two years, and was first elected to represent the Lower Falls on Belfast City Council in May 1993. In 2008 he became the second Sinn F in lord mayor of Belfast. Since 1998 he has combined his love of history and interest in the environment by organising historical walks through Belfast City Cemetery as part of the West Belfast Festival. Now recognised as an authority on the cemetery, he continues to highlight the importance of this burial site as a repository of the political, social and economic history of Belfast. He is the author of Written in stone: the history of Belfast City Cemetery (Belfast, 2006).
John Horne is professor of modern European history at Trinity College, Dublin, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is an executive member of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, P ronne, and has published widely on twentieth-century France and the comparative history of the First World War. Recent books are (ed.) A companion to World War One (Oxford, 2010); (ed.) Vers la guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915 (Paris, 2010); and (with Robert Gerwarth (eds)) War in peace: paramilitary violence in Europe after the Great War, 1917-1923 (Oxford, 2012). He organised the 2008 Thomas Davis Lectures broadcast on RT and published as Our war: Ireland and the Great War (Dublin, 2008; 2nd edn 2012). He is a member of the French government s Mission for the Centenary of the First World War
Keith Jeffery is professor of British history at Queen s University, Belfast, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is author or editor of fourteen book