Collective Memory and Political Identity in Northern Ireland: Recollections of the Future (Memory Politics and Transitional Justice)

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction Collective Remembering and the Power of Commemoration
	Framing the Past in (Northern) Ireland
	Conclusions
	References
2 Engaging the Present Through the Past
	Collective Memory and the Fall of a State
	The Pliable Nature of Remembering and Forgetting
	Legacy, Narratives and Collective Memory
	Relevance to Northern Ireland
	Hosting Recall and Memory
	Making Sense of the Social and Political World
	Remembering and the Burden of the Past
	Conclusions
	References
3 Identity, Commemoration, Remembering and Forgetting
	Collective Memory and Historical Approaches
	Narratives of Belonging
	Stereotyping Memory
	(Re)Presenting the Past
	Commemoration and Memorialisation
	Using Memory
	Collective Memory and Social Identity
	Memory Gaps and Constructed Amnesia
	Using Collective Memory
	Collective Memory in the Public Arena
	Conclusions
	References
4 The Active Use of Narratives in Collective Memory
	(Auto)Biography and Individual Recall
	Memories of the Present
	Memories of the Future
	The Social Context of Recall
	Engaging Past Ghosts
	Memory and Meaning
	Using Collective Memory
	Problematic Collective Memory
	Symbolism and Commemoration
	Making Sense of the Commemorative Past
	Commemorative Discourses and Narratives
	Living and Lived Memory
	Framing and Transmitting Collective Memory
	The Struggle for Memory Dominance
	(Re)Imagining the Past
	Conclusions
	References
5 Imagined Communities and Community Imaginations
	The Boundaries of Community
	Mobilising Memory Through Community
	Mobilising Community Through Memory
	Memory and the Symbolic Community
	Narrative Communities
	Communities of Memory
	Community and the Collective Past
	Conflict Communities
	Collective Memory as a Connector
	Framing and Bonding Communities
	Conclusions
	References
6 Localised Narratives and the Construction of Community Myths
	Identity Narratives of Loyalism and Republicanism
	Aspirational Memories
	Recalling and Retelling the Past
	Using Myth and Memory: The Cú Chulainn Saga
	Cú Chulainn in Republican Narratives
	Cú Chulainn in Loyalist Narratives
	Collective Memory and the Cú Chulainn Myth
	Localised Narratives and Memories
	Competing Narratives and Understandings
	Republican Memories and Narratives
	Loyalist Memorial
	The Contest for Memories
	Feeding Macro Narratives
	Republican Collective Memory
	Regrouping Republican Memories
	Orange Narratives and Collective Memory
	Conclusions
	References
7 Popular Cultures, Memory Performance and Using Memory
	Performing Memory
	Inscribed Memory
	Public Involvement in Memory
	Popular Memory: Murals and the Past
	Inscribing Popular Memory Through Performance
	Commemoration Practices and Places
	Identity Transmission Through Popular Culture
	The Past in Song and Story
	Formal Education and Collective Memory
	Conclusions
	References
8 Transnational Memories and Generational Change
	Globalising Memory
	Emigration and Expanding Memory
	Ownership of Memories Beyond Ireland
	Loyalism and Identity Abroad
	Ireland’s Heritage and the Past
	Using Memories Beyond Ireland
	Controversial and Divided Memory
	Remembering the Black and Tans
	Recalling and Making Memories Through Museums
	Agnostic and Official Museums
	Committed Museums
	Living Museums
	Women Commemoration and Memory
	Public Remembrance
	Conclusions
	References
9 Legacy, Victimhood and the Possibility of Change
	Who Are the Victims?
	The Morals of Remembering
	Memory, Victimhood and Entitlement
	Legacy of Conflict Memory
	Ownership of Memories
	Dealing With the Past
	Drawing a Line Under the Past?
	How Do Generations Remember?
	Reformulating Generational Memory
	What Do Generations Remember?
	Post-Conflict Communities and Memory
	Questioning Narratives
	Conclusions
	References
10 Collective Memory, Narrative, Politics and Identity in Northern Ireland: Some Conclusions
	The Roles of Collective Memory and Narrative
	The Legacy of Cultural Memory
	Cultural Memory Wars
	Everyday Collective Memories
	Recalling the Future in Northern Ireland
	References
Bibliography
Index