Kennedy, Catriona Aine orcid.org/0000-0002-6876-3747 (2020) Republican relicts:gender, memory and mourning in Irish nationalist culture, ca. 1798-1848. Journal of British Studies. pp. 608-637. ISSN 0021-9371
Abstract
In the past two decades, remembrance has emerged as one of the dominant preoccupations in Irish historical scholarship. There has, however, been little sustained analysis of the relationship between gender and memory in Irish studies, and gender remains under-theorized in memory studies more broadly. Yet one of the striking aspects of nineteenth-century commemorations of the 1798 and 1803 rebellions is the relatively prominent role accorded to women and the widows of three of the most celebrated United Irish “martyrs”—Sarah Curran, Pamela Fitzgerald and Matilda Tone—in particular. By analyzing the mnemonic functions these female figures performed in nineteenth-century Irish nationalist discourse, this paper offers a case study of the circumstances in which women may be incorporated into, rather than excluded, from national memory cultures. This incorporation, it is argued, had much to do with the fraught political context in which the 1798 rebellion and its leaders were memorialized. As the remembrance of the rebellion in the first half of the nineteenth century assumed a covert character, conventionally gendered distinctions between private grief and public remembrance, intimate histories and heroic reputations, and family genealogy and public biography became blurred so as to foreground women and the female mourner.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2020 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.69 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/jbr.2020.69 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159671 |
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