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OverviewForgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants -- and in particular Presbyterians -- repeatedly tried to repress over two centuries discomfiting recollections of participation, alongside Catholics, in a republican rebellion in 1798. By exploring a rich variety of sources, Beiner makes it possible to closely follow the dynamics of social forgetting. His particular focus on vernacular historiography, rarely noted in official histories, reveals the tensions between professed oblivion in public and more subtle rituals of remembrance that facilitated muted traditions of forgetful remembrance, which were masked by a local culture of reticence and silencing. Throughout Forgetful Remembrance, comparative references demonstrate the wider relevance of the study of social forgetting in Northern Ireland to numerous other cases where troublesome memories have been concealed behind a veil of supposed oblivion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Guy Beiner (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, Ben-Gurion University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780198749356ISBN 10: 019874935 Pages: 736 Publication Date: 18 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFiguresMapsAbbreviationsEpigraphsPreface: Forgetful RemembranceIntroduction: Sites of OblivionVernacular HistoriographySocial ForgettingThe Turn-OutPart I: Pre-Forgetting: Before 17981: Recycling Memory2: Initiating Counter-Memory3: Silencing4: Anticipating ForgettingPart II: Amnesty and Amnesia: The Aftermath of 17985: Wilful Forgetting6: Unforgivingness7: Exiling Memory8: Impenitence9: The Chimera of OblivionPart III: The Generation of Forgetting: The First Half of the Nineteenth Century10: Uninscribed Epitaphs11: Wilful Muteness12: Versified Recall13: Fictionalized Memory14: Hesitations in Coming Out15: Collecting Recollections16: Postmemory AnxietiesPart IV: Regenerated Forgetting: The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century17: Continued Disremembrance18: Excavating Memory19: Countering Neglect20: Imagined Reminiscence21: Cultural Memory and Social Forgetting22: Revivalism and Re-CollectingPart V: Decommemorating: The Turn of the Century23: Infighting24: Iconoclasm25: Rowdyism26: Comeback27: Rewriting and Staging28: Historical Disregard29: Re-CommemoratingPart VI: Restored Forgetting: The Short Twentieth Century30: Partitioned Memory31: Breaking Silence32: Unperceived Remembrance33: Troubled Forgetting34: NonconformismPart VII: Post-Forgetting: Into the Twenty-First Century35: Remembrance and Reconciliation36: Dispelling Forgetting37: Countering Disremembering38: Disparities of EsteemPart VIII: Conclusion: Rites of Oblivion39: Dealing with the Past40: Social Forgetting Beyond Ulster41: Rights of ForgettingSelect BibliographyReviewsThis book is 'bottom-up' history at its best, a sustained and subtle reflection on the enduring shadow of the failed rising of 1798 in Northern Ireland. Using a vast array of sources, Beiner shows shrewdly how for over two centuries ordinary people in Ulster and elsewhere have told this tale of a rising and its suppression through whispers, words, deeds and silence. * Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning; Remembering War; and War Beyond Words: Languages of Memory from the Great War to the Present * Guy Beiner has contributed to opening a new page in the history of memory, that of forgetting. He writes about the particular case of Ireland but the perspectives which he opens concern all historians of memory. * Pierre Nora, editor of Les Lieux de memoire [Realms of Memory] * This book is 'bottom-up' history at its best, a sustained and subtle reflection on the enduring shadow of the failed rising of 1798 in Northern Ireland. Using a vast array of sources, Beiner shows shrewdly how for over two centuries ordinary people in Ulster and elsewhere have told this tale of a rising and its suppression through whispers, words, deeds and silence. * Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning; Remembering War; and War Beyond Words: Languages of Memory from the Great War to the Present * Guy Beiner has contributed to opening a new page in the history of memory, that of forgetting. He writes about the particular case of Ireland but the perspectives which he opens concern all historians of memory. * Pierre Nora, editor of Les Lieux de memoire [Realms of Memory] * This is possibly the most important book that has been written to date about the very particular, politically inspired, social remembering and social forgetting of our history in the north of Ireland. * sluggerotoole.com * In addition to its immense scholarship, Forgetful Remembrance is notable for its theoretical sophistication... there can be no doubt that this impressive landmark volume confirms the author's status as the foremost exponent (and advocate) of memory studies in its Irish formulations. * Jim Smyth, The Irish Times * Beiner demonstrates a breadth and depth of research that is breathtaking ... His erudition and humanity make this a compelling and highly readable work. * Georgina Laragy, Times Higher Education * I am immersed in Guy Beiner's riveting Forgetful Remembrance... Beiner is an astonishing scholar whose dissections of Irish historical memory have already made his name. His new book looks at the processes of historiographical amnesia regarding the 1798 Rebellion in the north of Ireland, employing a huge intellectual range, and in extraordinary detail - while remaining intensely readable, with a Borgesian quirkiness. * Roy Foster, The Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationGuy Beiner is a senior lecturer of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specialises in the study of remembering and forgetting, with a particular interest in the history of Ireland. He was a Government of Ireland scholar at University College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary scholar at the Central European University, and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Oxford. Beiner is the author of the multi prize-winning book, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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