History and Memory in Modern Ireland

Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1967, Ian McBride is Lecturer at King's College London, having previously been Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Durham, 1996–2000. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, University College London, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Dr McBride's publications include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997), Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998) - which was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs memorial prize - and, co-edited with Tony Claydon, Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650–c.1850 (1998).

• 1. Introduction: memory and national identity in modern Ireland Ian McBride; 2. Martyrdom and memory in the seventeenth century Alan Ford; 3. Remembering 1798 Roy Foster; 4. Famine memory and the popular representation of scarcity Niall O Ciosáin; 5. The star-spangled shamrock: memory and meaning in Irish America Kevin O'Neill; 6. 'Where Wolfe Tone's statue was not': Joyce, monuments and memory Luke Gibbons; 7. 'For God and for Ulster': the Ulstermen on the Somme David Officer; 8. Commemoration in the Irish Free State: a chronicle of embarrassment David Fitzpatrick; 9. Monument and trauma: varieties of remembrance Joep Leerssen; 10. Northern Ireland: commemoration, elegy, forgetting Edna Longley; 11. 'No lack of ghosts': memory, commemoration and the state in Ireland D. George Boyce.

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