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A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, And Indian Removal Mission Sites In The Great Lakes And The South, Sean Thomas Jacobson
A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, And Indian Removal Mission Sites In The Great Lakes And The South, Sean Thomas Jacobson
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American Indians, cemeteries, Christianity, historic preservation, memory, public history
A Land Fit For Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, And Politics In Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers
A Land Fit For Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, And Politics In Ireland Since 1914, Jason Robert Myers
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Despite the fact that over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they constitute an alternative Irish national identity that threatened and challenged republican nationalism. These cultural components existed in the realm of vernacular memory, which lay beyond the reach of the Irish government. By examining commemorative rituals, war memorials, and popular culture, this project breathes …