Talking Stones : : The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland / / Elisabetta Viggiani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Viggiani, Elisabetta,
• MitwirkendeR: Donnan, Hastings,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and mater...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors?
• Chapter 1. Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialization: A Theoretical Overview
• Chapter 2. The Armalite and the Paintbrush: A Brief History of Memorialization of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
• Chapter 3. The ‘Landscape of Memorialization’ in Belfast: Spatial and Temporal Reflections
• Chapter 4. The ‘Memory Makers’ and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles
• Chapter 5. The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden: Constructing a Dominant Republican Narrative
• Chapter 6. The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee: Constructing a Sectional Republican Narrative
• Chapter 7. The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme: Constructing a Loyalist ‘Golden Age’
• Chapter 8. The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting a Narrative of Symbolic Accretion
• Chapter 9. Dissecting Consensus: ‘Memory Receivers’ and the Narrative’s ‘Hidden Transcript’
• Chapter 10. The Memory of the Dead: Seeking Common Ground?
• Appendix A: List of Memorials
• Appendix B: Emblems and Flags
• Bibliography
• Index