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By Richard S. Grayson,Fearghal McGarry

The 12 months 1916 witnessed occasions that may profoundly form either politics and commemoration in eire over the process the subsequent century. even if the Easter emerging and the conflict of the Somme have been vital ancient occasions of their personal correct, their importance additionally lay in how they got here to be understood as iconic moments within the emergence of Northern eire and the Irish Republic. Adopting an interdisciplinary process drawing on historical past, politics, anthropology and cultural reports, this quantity explores how the reminiscence of those foundational occasions has been developed, mythologised and revised over the process the earlier century. the purpose isn't basically to appreciate how the emerging and the Somme got here to exert a important position in how the earlier is seen in eire, yet to discover wider questions on the connection among heritage, commemoration and memory.

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