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Chapter 16 - The ‘Easter Rising’

Four Fallacies and Some Reflections

from Part II - After Parnell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

By
David Fitzpatrick
Edited by
Joep Leerssen
Joep Leerssen
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

The centenary commemorations of the 1916 rebellion, heavily scripted by the official state policies of 2016, has, mainly through the uncritical recycling of pious commonplaces, fixed a specific interpretation of the event in the public memory: a Rising timed to coincide with that of Christ, involving Pearse reading out a proclamation from the GPO  steps and canonized by Yeats’s poem as to its utterly transformative effect. This chapter deconstructs these commonplaces and traces their banal-nationalistic effect on the public commemorations.

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Easter Risingheritagecultural memorybanal nationalism
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Parnell and his Times , pp. 281 - 293
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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