Public history in Ireland: difficult histories

Through a collection of essays that reflect the complexity of the island's historical past as it operates today, Public History in Ireland delivers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to contemporary topics and debates in Irish public history.

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Other Authors: Hannan, Leonie (Editor), Purdue, Olwen ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
Edition:First edition
Series:Global perspectives on public history
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Summary:Through a collection of essays that reflect the complexity of the island's historical past as it operates today, Public History in Ireland delivers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to contemporary topics and debates in Irish public history.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: telling difficult histories in Ireland -- 1 Captive audience: Irish prison museums and their visitors -- 2 Material histories of psychiatric healthcare: building the 'World Within Walls' exhibition -- 3 Remembering lived experiences of dark pasts: transitioning Ireland's Magdalene laundries to difficult heritage -- 4 A challenging task: conducting Northern Ireland's mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries inquiry -- 5 The future of the past: the Ulster Museum and social cohesion in post-conflict Northern Ireland -- 6 'Colonial objects'? Museum decolonisation, binaries and autoethnography in Northern Ireland -- 7 Being 'difficult': the lives and afterlives of A.R. Hogg's Belfast Corporation photographs (1912-1915) -- 8 Archiving contested places and pasts: presenting multiple voices within the Prisons Memory Archive -- 9 (A)Dressing history: artistic responses to painful and shameful pasts -- Index.
Physical Description:xii, 228 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781032110592
9781032110608

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