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Conference of Irish Historians in Britain

Day: 10 March 2016

Category: Alternative 1916

Dressing-up and Make Believe

Posted On 10 March 2016 By Rachel Kowalskicomment

By Roisín Higgins [full_width] [/full_width] Historians have identified a cult of commemoration in the nineteenth century which expressed itself through the erection of monuments and the marking of anniversaries and jubilees. It was fed, some argue, by a fear of cultural amnesia.[i] Pierre Nora famously claimed that ‘We speak so Continue Reading

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