Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster

by Guy Beiner

Book Overview

Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants--and in particular Presbyterians--repeatedly tried to repress over two centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198864191
• ISBN13: 9780198864196
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"