Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Memory, Politics and Identity

Haunted by History

  • Book
  • © 2013

Overview

Authors:
  1. Cillian McGrattan

    1. University of Swansea, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Remembering and Looking Forward

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 1-6

  3. Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 7-19

  4. Belatedness

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 20-38

  5. Haunted by History

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 39-63

  6. Irrevocable Futures: Tracing the Dynamics of Conflict, Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 64-80

  7. Making History: The Articulation of the Northern State

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 81-100

  8. Can We Fix It? The Peace Process and the Construction of Modern Nationalism in Northern Ireland

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 101-122

  9. Nationalist Politics and Truth Recovery

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 123-144

  10. Generational Change

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 145-166

  11. Conclusion: The Workings of the Past

    • Cillian McGrattan
    Pages 167-175

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 176-211
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland, this book examines how historical injustices continue to haunt contemporary lives, and how institutional and juridical approaches to 'dealing' with the past often give way to a silencing consensus or re-marginalising victims.

Reviews

Memory, Politics and Identity is a highly provocative book. It challenges the 'placating consensus' on violence, victims and the past emergent during the Northern Ireland peace process. Often critical of politicians and academics, McGrattan's work may be one of the most talked-about books yet produced on Northern Irish politics.

Jon Tonge

Professor of Politics, University of Liverpool

As Northern Ireland enters a decade of commemorations this book will be a major resource for all those interested in the politics and history of memory. Cillian McGrattan makes a frontal assault on the shibboleths of 'truth recovery' in Northern Ireland charging its political and academic proponents with reproducing and legitimising the self-justifying narratives of loyalist and republican ex-paramilitaries. Using a wide range of sources from party archives and interviews to drama and film he argues that the peace process has been based on entrenching ethnic narratives which deny the sordid and murderous history visited upon the thousands of victims by the IRA and its loyalist counterparts.

Henry Patterson

Professor of Politics, University of Ulster, UK.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Swansea, UK

    Cillian McGrattan

About the author

Cillian McGrattan is a Lecturer in Political and Cultural Studies at the University of Swansea, UK

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation