The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture

By Emilie Pine

Book Overview

Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349319910
• ISBN13: 9781349319916
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"