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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820247303321

Autore

Beiner Guy <1968->

Titolo

Remembering the year of the French : Irish folk history and social memory / / Guy Beiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-27018-4

0-299-21823-6

9786612270185

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xix, 466 p. : ill., maps

Collana

History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora

Disciplina

941.507

Soggetti

French Expedition to Ireland, 1796-1797

Folklore and history - Ireland

Popular culture - Ireland - History

Ireland History Rebellion of 1798

Ireland History Rebellion of 1798 Historiography

Ireland History Rebellion of 1798 Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-443) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Phonetic Note -- Introduction -- Part 1---Collecting Memory -- 1. Oral History and Social Memory -- 2. Irish Folklore Collections -- 3. Richard Hayes and The Last Invasion of Ireland -- 4. Ancillary Folk History Sources -- Part 2---Folk History -- 5. History-Telling -- 6. Practitioners of Folk History -- 7. Time and Calendar -- Part 3---Democratic History -- 8. Who Were the Men of the West? -- 9. Multiple Heroes in Folk Historiographies -- 10. Who Were the Women of the West? -- Part 4---Commemorating History -- 11. Spheres and Mediums of Remembrance -- 12. Topographies of Folk Commemoration -- 13. Souvenirs -- 14. Ceremonies, Monuments, and Negotiations of Memory -- 15. Mediations of Remembrance -- 16. Memory and Oblivion -- Conclusion - Alternative History -- Archaeologies of Social Memory -- Epilogue - Commemorative Heritage -- Remembrance in the Late Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events--the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798--and folkloric representations of those events.