Making 1916

Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term – an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising – from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards – have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin’s General Post Office, and ‘official’ souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the ‘things’ of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-14
Mått:163 x 239 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781781381229

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Lisa Godson is Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joanna Brück is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

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Reviews'This important book explores the material and visual culture around the Rising. Lisa Godson and Joanna Brück have assembled essays from 23 contributors to comment on a plethora of objects, clothes, photographs, paintings, documents and buildings that provide us with a new set of angles on the events that convulsed Ireland 100 years ago.' Catriona Crowe, The Irish Times

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IntroductionJoanna Brück and Lisa Godson Approaching the materialand visual culture of the 1916 Rising Section1: The Fabric of the RisingBrian Hand The fabric of a deathless dream: ashort introduction to the origins and meanings of the 1916 tricolour flagJane Tynan The unmilitary appearance of the1916 RebelsFranc Myles Beating the retreat: the finalhours of the Easter RisingDaniel Jewesbury The constitution of astate yet to come: the unbroken promise of the Half-ProclamationBill Mc Cormack What is a forgery or acatalyst? The so-called ‘Castle Document’ of Holy Week 1916Ciara Chambers The ‘aftermath’ of theRising in cinema newsreels Section 2: The Affective Bonds of the RisingOrla Fitzpatrick Portraits andpropaganda: photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in TheCatholic BulletinJack Elliott ‘After I am hanged my portrait willbe interesting but not before’. Ephemera and the construction of personalresponses to the Easter RisingJoanna Brück Nationalism, gender and memory:internment camp craftwork, 1916-1923Laura McAtackney Female prison autographbooks: (re)remembering the Easter Rising through the experiences of Irish CivilWar imprisonmentBrian Crowley Pearse’s profile: the making of anicon Section 3: Revivalism and the RisingElaine Sisson – Dublin Civic Week and thematerialisation of historyMary Ann Bolger Redesigning the Rising:typographic commemorations of 1916Róisín Kennedy The Capuchin Annual:visual art and the legacy of 1916, one generation onHilary O’Kelly National Revival dressand 1916 Section 4: Remembering the RisingLar Joye and Brenda Malone Displaying thenation: the 1916 exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland (1932-1991)Elizabeth Crooke A story of absence andrecovery: the Easter Rising in museums in Northern IrelandPat Cooke History, materiality and the mythof 1916Damian Shiels Place versus memory: forgettingIreland’s sites of independence?Catherine Marshall ‘Of all the trials notto paint…’. Sir John Lavery’s painting High Treason, Court of CriminalAppeal: the Trial of Roger Casement 1916Justin Carville ‘Dusty fingers oftime’: photography, materials memory and 1916Lisa Godson Religion, ritual and theperformance of memory in the Irish Free State Afterword Nicholas Allen Lostcity of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of Empire