Ghosts of the Somme : commemoration and culture war in Northern Ireland
Group identity Collective memory World War, 1914-1918 Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 Political culture Ireland
University of Notre Dame Press
2018
EISBN 0268103879
(Re)theorizing commemoration.
"What does it mean to follow a ghost?": locating "the field" and the ethics of empathy.
Policy, peace-building, and the past during the decade of centenaries.
Peace as defeat: loyalism and the culture war in the "new" Northern Ireland.
"Our culture is their bravery": commemoration and the culture war.
The ghost dance: memory work and loyalism's conflicted hauntology.
"Dupes no more"? Loyalist commemoration and the politics of peace-building.
Postscript: "All changed, changed utterly"?.
"What does it mean to follow a ghost?": locating "the field" and the ethics of empathy.
Policy, peace-building, and the past during the decade of centenaries.
Peace as defeat: loyalism and the culture war in the "new" Northern Ireland.
"Our culture is their bravery": commemoration and the culture war.
The ghost dance: memory work and loyalism's conflicted hauntology.
"Dupes no more"? Loyalist commemoration and the politics of peace-building.
Postscript: "All changed, changed utterly"?.
