Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance

by Nuala C. Johnson

Overview

The Irish experience of the Great War, and its commemoration, is the setting for Nuala Johnson's pioneering examination of "the landscape of the national imaginery". Her study represents a major contribution to cultural geography and to the historiography of remembrance. The book combines theoretical perspectives with original primary research revealing how memory literally occurred in post-1918 Ireland, and the various conflicts and struggles that were both cause and effect of the process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521826167
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/29/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography , #35
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Nuala C. Johnson is a Lecturer in Geography at Queen's University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Geography, landscape and memory; 2. A call to arms: recruitment poster and propaganda; 3. Parading memory: peace day celebrations; 4. Sculpting memory: space, memorials and rituals of remembrance; 5. Scripting memory: literary landscapes and the war experience; 6. Remembering the Easter Rebellion 1916; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...this book offers valuable new insights and methodical directions for future historical and interdisciplinary studies." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"...concise, structured logically, and well written. ...an excellent piece of scholarship." Professional Geographer

"... an excellent thesis." Irish Echo

"Johnson succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of postwar memory construction in Ireland." - Andrew Iarocci, Wilfrid Laurier University

"Johnson has truffled newspaper reports and political archives, and these sources inform her best passages" - The Journal of Modern History Edna Longley, Queen's Univeresity of Belfast

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