Complicated Pasts, Promising Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4167590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann-Marie Foster (0000-0003-3451-8601, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public history review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1037-9851 • E-ISSN: 1833-4989 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8376 |
| OpenAlex | W4378904975 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This overview article explores the nature of public history on the island of Ireland, discussing current trends in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Family history and digital history are highly popular ways of engaging with the past, both on the island and among the Irish diaspora, who have a voracious appetite for engaging with their heritage. Given that the island contains a postcolonial society (Republic of Ireland) and a post-conflict one (Northern Ireland) attention is given to the ways that these difficult pasts are engaged with by communities, through examining the histories of Mother and Baby Homes, The Troubles, and dark tourism. This article also briefly comments on who is involved in public history. Academic historians are engaged at state and local levels, and are often turned to as experts in the field, but grassroots public history projects which offer participatory ways of doing history are growing. This article emphasizes the high levels of engagement Irish and Northern Irish publics have with their history, however, it also suggests that public history as a radical method of 'doing history' is still in its relative infancy
Citizen journalism · Diaspora · Ethnology · Grassroots · Irish · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public history · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Ritual, identity and nation
History and memory in modern Ireland
Troubling Pasts
Dealing with difficult pasts
Commemoration, Public History and the Professional Historian
Walking the Falls
Irish public histories as an historiographical problem
Negotiating public history in the Republic of Ireland
Ireland and Irishness
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |