Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory

Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii List of Abbreviations xviii Phonetic Note xix Introduction---Recycling the Dustbin of History To Speak of Ninety-Eight 5 Part 1---Collecting Memory 1. Oral History and Social Memory 17 2. Irish Folklore Collections 34 3. Richard Hayes and The Last Invasion of Ireland 62 4. Ancillary Folk History Sources 69 Part 2---Folk History 5. History-Telling 81 6. Practitioners of Folk History 115 7. Time and Calendar 124 Part 3---Democratic History 8. Who Were the Men of the West? 139 9. Multiple Heroes in Folk Historiographies 168 10. Who Were the Women of the West? 185 Part 4---Commemorating History 11. Spheres and Mediums of Remembrance 201 12. Topographies of Folk Commemoration 208 13. Souvenirs 231 14. Ceremonies, Monuments, and Negotiations of Memory 243 15. Mediations of Remembrance 276 16. Memory and Oblivion 304 Conclusion---Alternative History Archaeologies of Social Memory 313 Epilogue---Commemorative Heritage Remembrance in the Late Twentieth Century 325 Notes 335 Selected Bibliography 415 Index 445 ...