Forgetful Remembrance

Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He specializes in the study of remembering and forgetting, with a particular interest in the history of Ireland. He was a Government of Ireland scholar at University College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary scholar at the Central European University, and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the multi-prize-winning book, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory.

FiguresMapsAbbreviationsEpigraphsPreface: Forgetful RemembranceIntroduction: Sites of OblivionVernacular HistoriographySocial ForgettingThe Turn-OutPart I: Pre-Forgetting: Before 17981: Recycling Memory2: Initiating Counter-Memory3: Silencing4: Anticipating ForgettingPart II: Amnesty and Amnesia: The Aftermath of 17985: Wilful Forgetting6: Unforgivingness7: Exiling Memory8: Impenitence9: The Chimera of OblivionPart III: The Generation of Forgetting: The First Half of the Nineteenth Century10: Uninscribed Epitaphs11: Wilful Muteness12: Versified Recall13: Fictionalized Memory14: Hesitations in Coming Out15: Collecting Recollections16: Postmemory AnxietiesPart IV: Regenerated Forgetting: The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century17: Continued Disremembrance18: Excavating Memory19: Countering Neglect20: Imagined Reminiscence21: Cultural Memory and Social Forgetting22: Revivalism and Re-CollectingPart V: Decommemorating: The Turn of the Century23: Infighting24: Iconoclasm25: Rowdyism26: Comeback27: Rewriting and Staging28: Historical Disregard29: Re-CommemoratingPart VI: Restored Forgetting: The Short Twentieth Century30: Partitioned Memory31: Breaking Silence32: Unperceived Remembrance33: Troubled Forgetting34: NonconformismPart VII: Post-Forgetting: Into the Twenty-First Century35: Remembrance and Reconciliation36: Dispelling Forgetting37: Countering Disremembering38: Disparities of EsteemPart VIII: Conclusion: Rites of Oblivion39: Dealing with the Past40: Social Forgetting Beyond Ulster41: Rights of ForgettingSelect Bibliography