Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-376) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: political transition, peace-making and the past -- Pt. I. Cultural memory, trauma and conflict in the Irish Troubles -- 1. Memory, myth and tradition: concepts of the past in the Irish Troubles -- 2. Trauma, memory, politics: paradoxes of the Irish peace process -- Pt. II. Remembering Bloody Sunday -- 3. Public arenas, personal testimonies: the institution and contestation of British official memory of Bloody Sunday -- 4. Trauma and life-stories: survivor memories of Bloody Sunday -- 5. Widening the circle of memory: human rights and the politics of Bloody Sunday commemoration -- 6. Counter-memory, truth and justice: Bloody Sunday and the Irish peace process -- Pt. III. 'The forgotten victims'? Border Protestants and the memory of terror -- 7. Troubles on the Border: Ulster-British identity and the cultural memory of 'ethnic cleansing' -- 8. Giving voice: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and memories of the Troubles in the Irish peace process -- 9. Mobilizing memories: the Unionist politics of victimhood and the Good Friday Agreement -- 10. Remembrance, reconciliation and the reconstruction of the site of the Enniskillen 'Poppy Day' bomb.
Summary:
'Making Peace With The Past?'looks at the Irish troubles and how memory and trauma are being used in the process of reconciliation. The book investigates how personal, empirical experience has influences the narratives and ideologies of the public pronouncements.
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