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.

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• Figures Maps Abbreviations Epigraphs Preface: Forgetful Remembrance Introduction: Sites of Oblivion Vernacular Historiography Social Forgetting The Turn-Out Part I: Pre-Forgetting: Before 1798 1: Recycling Memory 2: Initiating Counter-Memory 3: Silencing 4: Anticipating Forgetting Part II: Amnesty and Amnesia: The Aftermath of 1798 5: Wilful Forgetting 6: Unforgivingness 7: Exiling Memory 8: Impenitence 9: The Chimera of Oblivion Part III: The Generation of Forgetting: The First Half of the Nineteenth Century 10: Uninscribed Epitaphs 11: Wilful Muteness 12: Versified Recall 13: Fictionalized Memory 14: Hesitations in Coming Out 15: Collecting Recollections 16: Postmemory Anxieties Part IV: Regenerated Forgetting: The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 17: Continued Disremembrance 18: Excavating Memory 19: Countering Neglect 20: Imagined Reminiscence 21: Cultural Memory and Social Forgetting 22: Revivalism and Re-Collecting Part V: Decommemorating: The Turn of the Century 23: Infighting 24: Iconoclasm 25: Rowdyism 26: Recasting and Performing 27: Rewriting and Staging 28: Historical Disregard 29: Re-Commemorating Part VI: Restored Forgetting: The Short Twentieth Century 30: Partitioned Memory 31: Breaking Silence 32: Unperceived Remembrance 33: Troubled Forgetting 34: Nonconformism Part VII: Post-Forgetting: Into the Twenty-First Century 35: Remembrance and Reconciliation 36: Exhibiting Memory 37: Countering Disremembering 38: Disparities of Esteem Part VIII: Conclusion: Rites of Oblivion 39: Dealing with the Past 40: Social Forgetting Beyond Ulster 41: Rights of Forgetting Select Bibliography