Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance.

By: Johnson, Nuala CMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Historical GeographyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139149082Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918--IrelandGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of RemembranceDDC classification: 941.50821 LOC classification: D547.I6 J59 2003Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Geography, landscape and memory -- Time, memory and representation -- Space, memory and representation -- Remembering the First World War -- 2 A call to arms: recruitment poster and propaganda -- Political and cultural background -- Recruiting an army in Ireland: the early years -- Motivating men: war propaganda -- Interpreting posters -- Irish war propaganda -- Recruitment pamphlets -- Drawing support: recruitment posters -- Conclusion -- 3 Parading memory: peace day celebrations -- The politics of memory -- The spectacle of memory -- The spectacle of remembrance: Peace Day 19th July 1919 -- Celebrating peace around the country -- Ulster remembers: Peace Day August 1919 -- Belfast's 1919 parade -- Conclusion -- 4 Sculpting memory: space, memorials and rituals of remembrance -- Irish National War Memorial -- Church memorials -- Mapping memory in the public sphere -- National war memorial revisited -- Conclusion -- 5 Scripting memory: literary landscapes and the war experience -- Dramatising war: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie -- Act I: Confronting war on the Home Front -- Act II: The ritual of war on the Western Front -- Act III: Recuperating mind and body in a Dublin hospital -- Act IV: Dancing to death at the Avondale Football Club -- Situating 'The Silver Tassie' -- Combating war: Irish soldiers as writers -- Irish war poets -- Irish war novelists -- Liam O'Flaherty and the theme of bestiality -- Patrick MacGill: the navvy soldier -- Conclusion -- 6 Remembering the Easter Rebellion 1916 -- The drama of Easter week 1916 -- Cast in bronze: Cuchulain -- Burying the dead: the National Grave Association -- Official commemoration 1966 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Newspapers and journals -- Index.
Summary: This book provides an examination of the development of memorial landscapes in Ireland.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Geography, landscape and memory -- Time, memory and representation -- Space, memory and representation -- Remembering the First World War -- 2 A call to arms: recruitment poster and propaganda -- Political and cultural background -- Recruiting an army in Ireland: the early years -- Motivating men: war propaganda -- Interpreting posters -- Irish war propaganda -- Recruitment pamphlets -- Drawing support: recruitment posters -- Conclusion -- 3 Parading memory: peace day celebrations -- The politics of memory -- The spectacle of memory -- The spectacle of remembrance: Peace Day 19th July 1919 -- Celebrating peace around the country -- Ulster remembers: Peace Day August 1919 -- Belfast's 1919 parade -- Conclusion -- 4 Sculpting memory: space, memorials and rituals of remembrance -- Irish National War Memorial -- Church memorials -- Mapping memory in the public sphere -- National war memorial revisited -- Conclusion -- 5 Scripting memory: literary landscapes and the war experience -- Dramatising war: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie -- Act I: Confronting war on the Home Front -- Act II: The ritual of war on the Western Front -- Act III: Recuperating mind and body in a Dublin hospital -- Act IV: Dancing to death at the Avondale Football Club -- Situating 'The Silver Tassie' -- Combating war: Irish soldiers as writers -- Irish war poets -- Irish war novelists -- Liam O'Flaherty and the theme of bestiality -- Patrick MacGill: the navvy soldier -- Conclusion -- 6 Remembering the Easter Rebellion 1916 -- The drama of Easter week 1916 -- Cast in bronze: Cuchulain -- Burying the dead: the National Grave Association -- Official commemoration 1966 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Newspapers and journals -- Index.

This book provides an examination of the development of memorial landscapes in Ireland.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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