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dc.contributor.authorCauvin, Thomas <Colorado State University, United States>
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-07T14:50:33Z
dc.date.available2021-04-07T14:50:33Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/5203
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-3350
dc.description.abstractThrough the study of commemorative exhibitions arranged at the National Museum of Ireland (Ireland) and at the Ulster Museum (Northern Ireland), this thesis compares the changing representations of three historical conflicts (the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, the 1798 Rebellion, and the 1916 Easter Rising). Beginning with Partition and ending with new permanent military exhibitions in the twenty-first century, the research explores the ways in which the changing representations of these conflicts staged by the two museums have correlated with broader processes of mobilization of history designed to fit the needs of the present. In doing so, the complex relationships between museums and national identity are explored in the two parts of the island. The dissertation reveals how, at first, the two national museums participated in the construction of opposed official narratives, based on Nationalist and Unionist interpretations of the past in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It demonstrates how these initial interpretations of the three conflicts were gradually reassessed in response to changes in Anglo-Irish relations, especially in connection with the Northern Irish conflict and the politics of reconciliation. But the dissertation also explores how the new remit attributed to the two national museums has been shaped by the demands of cultural tourism, marketing strategy, and the new links with audiences, in a way that has served to detach the representations of the three conflicts from the political relations between the island of Ireland and Britain in the narrow sense. The dissertation explores the role of state actors, but is equally concerned with role played by …it_IT
dc.format.extent424 p.it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherT. Cauvin, National museums and the mobilization of history: commemorative exhibitions of Anglo-Irish conflicts in Ireland and Northern Ireland (1921-2006). Florence, European University Institute, 2012it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectNationit_IT
dc.subjectMuseumit_IT
dc.subjectIrelandit_IT
dc.subjectComparisonit_IT
dc.subjectMemoryit_IT
dc.subjectIdentityit_IT
dc.subjectReconciliationit_IT
dc.titleNational museums and the mobilization of history: commemorative exhibitions of Anglo-Irish conflicts in Ireland and Northern Ireland (1921-2006)it_IT
dc.typeDoctoral Thesisit_IT
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