Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
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
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memory, Politics and Identity
Book Subtitle: Haunted by History
Authors: Cillian McGrattan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291790
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29200-0Published: 10 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33220-5Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29179-0Published: 10 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 211
Topics: International Relations, British Politics, Terrorism and Political Violence, Political Science, Crime and Society