Troubles of the Past: History, Identity and Collective Memory in Northern Ireland

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This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, but also the ways in which the key themes that emerge are harnessed and mobilised to political and social effect in the present. The book draws deeply on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to add significantly to existing knowledge surrounding the debates over memory and the ways it is used in Northern Irish society.

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James W. McAuley is Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies at the University of Huddersfield
Mire Braniff is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University
Graham Spencer is Professor in Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth