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Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)by Guy Beiner
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events—the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798—and folkloric representationsof those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland’s rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone largely unnoticed by historians. Beiner analyzes hundreds of hitherto unstudied historical, literary, and ethnographic sources. Though his focus is on 1798, his work is also a comprehensive study of Irish folk history and grass-roots social memory in Ireland. Investigating how communities in the West of Ireland remembered, well into the mid-twentieth century, an episode in the late eighteenth century, this is a “history from below” that gives serious attention to the perspectives of those who have been previously ignored or discounted. Beiner brilliantly captures the stories, ceremonies, and other popular traditions through which local communities narrated, remembered, and commemorated the past. Demonstrating the unique value of folklore as a historical source, Remembering the Year of the French offers a fresh perspective on collective memory and modern Irish history. Book News Annotation:Declaring folklore sources to be "invaluable for historical studies
of popular culture and mentalité," Beiner (modern history, Ben-Gurion
U., Israel) analyzes Irish provincial community folklore remembrances
and commemorations of French military involvement in the Great Irish
Rebellion of 1798. He applies a thematic approach to understanding
the mechanics of remembrance, first discussing methodological issues
of oral history, social memory, and folk history and then examining
varied folk narratives of 1798 as democratic engagements with the
past. Next he explores public commemorations of 1798, focusing
particularly on negotiations of social memory and how it was mediated
through influences of popular print and education. Finally, he
concludes with a discussion of how the historical method he has
developed here for analyzing folklore sources can be applied more
broadly across the discipline.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:"Remembering the Year of the French" is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events--the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798--and folkloric representationsof those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone largely unnoticed by historians. About the AuthorGuy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is the author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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