Title Ghosts of the Somme : commemoration and culture war in Northern Ireland / Jonathan Evershed

Published Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents (Re)theorizing commemoration -- "What does it mean to follow a ghost?": locating "the field" and the ethics of empathy -- Policy, peace-building, and the past during the decade of centenaries -- Peace as defeat: loyalism and the culture war in the "new" Northern Ireland -- "Our culture is their bravery": commemoration and the culture war -- The ghost dance: memory work and loyalism's conflicted hauntology -- "Dupes no more"? Loyalist commemoration and the politics of peace-building -- Postscript: "All changed, changed utterly"? Summary "In 2016, as the Irish Republic marked the hundredth anniversary of its sacrificial founding by the martyrs of Easter week, Ulster Loyalists were making final preparations to mark the centenary of a blood sacrifice of equal and opposite significance for contemporary Irish politics: that of the 36th (Ulster) Division at the Battle of the Somme during World War I. This book examines the complex politics of commemorating Ireland's 'other' 1916. During the present 'Decade of Centenaries,' commemoration - viewed as a driver or even cause of past conflict in Northern Ireland - has come to occupy a central place in ongoing efforts at peacebuilding and reconciliation. Drawing on more than 18 months of original ethnographic field work conducted in Belfast, this book examines the conflicted politics of Ulster Loyalist commemorations of the Battle of the Somme during the Decade. In a context defined for Loyalists by what they have termed the 'culture war,' commemoration is the means by which they confront and challenge the perceived erosion of their identity in the 'new' Northern Ireland. Evershed examines how commemoration of the Somme brings Loyalists into conflict not only with the politics of Irish Nationalism, but with the 'peacebuilding' state and, crucially, with each other."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Great Britain. Army. Division, 36th. SUBJECT Great Britain. Army. Division, 36th. fast Subject Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 -- Centennial celebrations, etc World War, 1914-1918 -- Northern Ireland -- Anniversaries, etc World War, 1914-1918 -- Ireland -- Influence Collective memory -- Northern Ireland Group identity -- Northern Ireland Political culture -- Northern Ireland HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland. Anniversaries. Collective memory. Group identity. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Political culture. Politics and government. SUBJECT Ireland -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject France. Ireland. Northern Ireland. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018012581 ISBN 9780268103880 0268103887 9780268103873 0268103879

Other Titles Commemoration and culture war in Northern Ireland

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