TY - BOOK AU - Viggiani,Elisabetta AU - Donnan,Hastings TI - Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland SN - 9781782384076 U1 - 941.60824 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Collective memory KW - Northern Ireland KW - Memorialization KW - Political aspects KW - Political violence KW - History KW - 20th century KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - Memory Studies, Heritage Studies, Anthropology (General) N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction: Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors? --; Chapter 1. Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialization: A Theoretical Overview --; Chapter 2. The Armalite and the Paintbrush: A Brief History of Memorialization of the Troubles in Northern Ireland --; Chapter 3. The ‘Landscape of Memorialization’ in Belfast: Spatial and Temporal Reflections --; Chapter 4. The ‘Memory Makers’ and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles --; Chapter 5. The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden: Constructing a Dominant Republican Narrative --; Chapter 6. The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee: Constructing a Sectional Republican Narrative --; Chapter 7. The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme: Constructing a Loyalist ‘Golden Age’ --; Chapter 8. The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting a Narrative of Symbolic Accretion --; Chapter 9. Dissecting Consensus: ‘Memory Receivers’ and the Narrative’s ‘Hidden Transcript’ --; Chapter 10. The Memory of the Dead: Seeking Common Ground? --; Appendix A: List of Memorials --; Appendix B: Emblems and Flags --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384083 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782384083 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782384083/original ER -