The Vicissitudes of Forgetting
Military Intervention and the Memory of the Troubles in Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Hazley (0000-0002-1759-5456, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-69 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2021.1873550 |
| OpenAlex | W3132995911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
The Northern Ireland Troubles was Britain's longest and largest post-war conflict, involving the deployment of some 300,000 military personnel over a 35-year period. Curiously, however, while the formal ending of the conflict in 1998 has generated profuse memorialisation in Northern Ireland, remembrance of the conflict in Britain has been conspicuously muted. This article uses newspaper reportage, popular cartoons, official reports and the records of a public campaign to explore the origins and evolution of negative attitudes towards the Troubles in Britain, focusing especially on reactions to military intervention during its early years. Where mainstream histories of post-war Britain emphasise popular ‘indifference’ to the Troubles in Britain, the article suggests attitudes to Northern Ireland reflected popular aversion, transmuted into apathy over the longer term as a result of an active and state-managed process of forgetting. These processes, it is suggested, continue to affect how Northern Ireland is perceived in the present
Cognitive psychology · Forgetting · Intervention (counseling · Psychiatry · History · Irish and British Studies · Military History and Strategy · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain
Postcolonial Melancholia
Ulster and the British Problem
Ireland and the Irish in InterwarEngland
An Army of Tribes
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
Gallantry on the Shankill road
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain
Counter-Insurgency against ‘Kith and Kin’? The British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76
Commemorating War
The British army in Northern Ireland 1969–1972
Remembering’ War
Britishness and Commemoration
The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain
Northern Ireland
Reporting the troubles in northern Ireland
British culture and the end of empire
The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996
British and Irish public opinion towards the Northern Ireland problem∗
Crisis of Confidence
Multidirectional Memory
Seven types of forgetting
The military covenant and the civil-military contract in Britain
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |