1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising

Margaret O'Callaghan, Mary E. Daly

• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Year: 2007
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908997760
• Topic: History
• Index: History

1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising'' looks closely at how the Irish government reinvented the message of Easter 1916 through the official golden jubilee celebrations of the nationalist Rising. This collection of essays explores the organization of various unofficial commemorations in Northern Ireland in 1966 and the significance of these for nationalist and unionist politics in the mid-1960s. It analyzes the golden jubilee of the Rising from a political perspective, and revisits the 1966 anniversary from the perspectives of drama, performance, youth culture and history. Contributors to the book are the editors, Mary E. Daly and Margaret O''Callaghan, and: Diarmaid Ferriter, Rebecca Graff-McRae, Roisin Higgins, Carole Holohan, Michael Laffan, Catherine O''Donnell and Anthony Roche.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION— IRISH MODERNITY AND ‘THE PATRIOT DEAD’ IN 1966
• 1. ‘LESS A COMMEMORATION OF THE ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND MORE A COMMEMORATION OF THE HOPES OF THE MEN OF 1916’
• 2. ‘FROM CASEMENT PARK TO TOOMEBRIDGE’—THE COMMEMORATION OF THE EASTER RISING IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1966
• 3. ‘I AM THE NARRATOR OVER-AND-ABOVE…THE CALLER UP OF THE DEAD’: PAGEANT AND DRAMA IN 1966
• 4. MORE THAN A REVIVAL OF MEMORIES? 1960S YOUTH AND THE 1916 RISING
• 5. COMMEMORATING THE RISING, 1922–65: ‘A FIGURATIVE SCRAMBLE FOR THE BONES OF THE PATRIOT DEAD’?
• 6. FORGET POLITICS! THEORISING THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF COMMEMORATION AND CONFLICT
• 7. PRAGMATISM VERSUS UNITY: THE STORMONT GOVERNMENT AND THE 1966 EASTER COMMEMORATION
• 8. SITES OF MEMORY AND MEMORIAL
• 9. STAGING 1916 IN 1966: PASTICHE, PARODY AND PROBLEMS OF REPRESENTATION
• 10. EASTER WEEK AND THE HISTORIANS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• COPYRIGHT