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The Politics of Memoir and the Northern Ireland Conflict (Paperback)
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The Politics of Memoir and the Northern Ireland Conflict (Paperback)
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This book examines memoir-writing by many of the key political
actors in the Northern Irish 'Troubles' (1969-1998), and argues
that memoir has been a neglected dimension of the study of the
legacies of the violent conflict. It investigates these sources in
the context of ongoing disputes over how to interpret Northern
Ireland's recent past. A careful reading of these memoirs can
provide insights into the lived experience and retrospective
judgments of some of the main protagonists of the conflict. The
period of relative peace rests upon an uneasy calm in Northern
Ireland. Many people continue to inhabit contested ideological
territories, and in their strategies for shaping the narrative
'telling' of the conflict, key individuals within the Protestant
Unionist and Catholic Irish Nationalist communities can appear
locked into exclusive and self-justifying discourses. In such
circumstances, while some memoirists have been genuinely
self-critical, many others have utilised a post-conflict language
of societal reconciliation in order to mask a strategy that
actually seeks to score rhetorical victories and to discomfort
traditional enemies. Memoir-writing is only one dimension of the
current ad hoc approach to 'dealing with the past' in Northern
Ireland, but in the absence of any consensus regarding an
overarching 'truth and reconciliation' process, this is likely to
be the pattern for the foreseeable future. This study provides the
first comprehensive analysis of a major resource for understanding
the conflict.
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