Collective Memory and Political Identity in Northern Ireland: Recollections of the Future

by James W. McAuley

This book covers the notion of collective memory - broadly defined as the ways in which differing pasts are created, understood and reproduced - and how this is perpetuated in Northern Ireland by a wide set of social actors, including nations, religious and political groupings, and local communities. Such collective memories are not a preservative for historically accurate recall of bygone events but rather readings of the past subject to contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031476743
• ISBN13: 9783031476747
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"