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Derry City - Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Derry City - Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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Derry is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and has had a
Catholic majority since 1850. It was witness to some of the most
important events of the civil rights movement and the Troubles.
Derry City examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the twentieth
century to the end of the 1960s and the start of the Troubles.
Plotting the relationships between community memory and historic
change, Margo Shea provides a rich and nuanced account of the
cultural, political, and social history of Derry using archival
research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public discourse.
Looking through the lens of the memories Catholics cultivated and
nurtured as well as those they contested, she illuminates Derry's
Catholics' understandings of themselves and their Irish cultural
and political identities through the decades that saw Home Rule,
Partition, and four significant political redistricting schemes
designed to maintain unionist political majorities in the largely
Catholic and nationalist city. Shea weaves local history sources,
community folklore, and political discourse together to demonstrate
how people maintain their agency in the midst of political and
cultural conflict. As a result, the book invites a reconsideration
of the genesis of the Troubles and reframes discussions of the
"problem" of Irish memory. It will be of interest to anyone
interested in Derry and to students and scholars of memory, modern
and contemporary British and Irish history, public history, the
history of colonization, and popular cultural history.
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