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Ghosts of the Somme - Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Ghosts of the Somme - Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Once assumed to be a driver or even cause of conflict,
commemoration during Ireland's Decade of Centenaries came to occupy
a central place in peacebuilding efforts. The inclusive and
cross-communal reorientation of commemoration, particularly of the
First World War, has been widely heralded as signifying new forms
of reconciliation and a greater "maturity" in relationships between
Ireland and the UK and between Unionists and Nationalists in
Northern Ireland. In this study, Jonathan Evershed interrogates the
particular and implicitly political claims about the nature of
history, memory, and commemoration that define and sustain these
assertions, and explores some of the hidden and countervailing
transcripts that underwrite and disrupt them. Drawing on two years
of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Belfast, Evershed explores
Ulster Loyalist commemoration of the Battle of the Somme, its
conflicted politics, and its confrontation with official
commemorative discourse and practice during the Decade of
Centenaries. He investigates how and why the myriad social,
political, cultural, and economic changes that have defined
postconflict Northern Ireland have been experienced by Loyalists as
a culture war, and how commemoration is the means by which they
confront and challenge the perceived erosion of their identity. He
reveals the ways in which this brings Loyalists into conflict not
only with the politics of Irish Nationalism, but with the
"peacebuilding" state and, crucially, with each other. He
demonstrates how commemoration works to reproduce the intracommunal
conflicts that it claims to have overcome and interrogates its
nuanced (and perhaps counterintuitive) function in conflict
transformation.
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