Local Histories in Northern Ireland

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ID4494800
AutoresC Nash (0000-0002-0868-7164, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume60
Fascículo1
Páginas45-68
Data de publicação2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory Workshop Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/hwj/dbi010
OpenAlexW1977869863
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas4

This essay explores the ways in which local history is presented, practiced and promoted in relation to the politics of culture, history and identity in Northern Ireland. Though the politicization of history inevitably frames the practice of local history in Northern Ireland, the level of interest in local history does not support the common argument that Northern Irish society is marked by a uniquely obsessive focus on the past. Instead it suggests a more complex picture of historical knowledge, interest and practice than that contained within the image of two violently destructive, intense and permanently irreconcilable historical perspectives. This essay discusses the ways in which ideas of history and the local are imagined and mobilised, conflicting arguments about approaches to the past and the practical ways in which local historical societies and other organisations engage with the past, and in doing so, rework the meaning of the local. It highlights innovative attempts to explore a shared history of conflict, shared histories of common experience, and the distinctive experiences of those patterns of commonality and division for specific localities in Northern Ireland and for Northern Ireland as a whole

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