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Making 1916 - Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising (Hardcover)
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Making 1916 - Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising (Hardcover)
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The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish
history when militant republicans sought to seize political power
from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short
term - an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence
movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject
of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich
variety of objects and images associated with the Rising - from
buttons and medals to souvenir postcards - have not formed a focus
of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the
material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these
illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this
iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from
Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of
rubble from Dublin's General Post Office, and 'official' souvenirs
such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the
construction of individual and collective memory. In placing
material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine
how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are
caught up in processes of identity production in both public and
private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new
understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the 'things'
of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency
and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of
identity and the creation of social memory.
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