Making Peace with the Past? - Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles (Paperback)

This book explores the psychic, cultural and political ramifications of memory within the Irish Troubles. It investigates the traumatic impact of the violence perpetrated since 1969; the antagonistic cultural narratives of memory fashioned and mobilised in this context within public and private arenas; and the conflicts, paradoxes and contradictions involved in 'coming to terms with the past' both before and during the Irish peace process initiated in 1993-94. The study focuses on personal and collective remembrance within two particular locations: the Unionist communities along the Irish Border, and nationalist Derry. It traces the formation from below of competing public narratives, one concerned with the 'ethnic cleansing' of Protestants by the Irish Republican Army, the other with British state violence on Bloody Sunday; and analyses their subjective roots in specific experiences of fear and loss, their role in ideological struggle, and their complicated relation to private, familial and individual remembering. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2007
Authors:	Graham Dawson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-5672-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-5672-1
Barcode:	9780719056727

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