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This book examines memoir-writing by many of the key political actors in the Northern Irish 'Troubles' (1969-1998), and argues that memoir has been a neglected dimension of the study of the legacies of the violent conflict. It investigates these sources in the context of ongoing disputes over how to interpret Northern Ireland's recent past. A careful reading of these memoirs can provide insights into the lived experience and retrospective judgments of some of the main protagonists of the conflict. The period of relative peace rests upon an uneasy calm in Northern Ireland. Many people continue to inhabit contested ideological territories, and in their strategies for shaping the narrative 'telling' of the conflict, key individuals within the Protestant Unionist and Catholic Irish Nationalist communities can appear locked into exclusive and self-justifying discourses. In such circumstances, while some memoirists have been genuinely self-critical, many others have utilised a post-conflict language of societal reconciliation in order to mask a strategy that actually seeks to score rhetorical victories and to discomfort traditional enemies. Memoir-writing is only one dimension of the current ad hoc approach to 'dealing with the past' in Northern Ireland, but in the absence of any consensus regarding an overarching 'truth and reconciliation' process, this is likely to be the pattern for the foreseeable future. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of a major resource for understanding the conflict.
Autobiographical memory -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland. --- Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century. --- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland.. --- Social conflict -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century. --- Rhetoric --- Autobiographical memory --- Political violence --- Social conflict --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Ireland --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Memory --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Political aspects --- History --- Northern Ireland --- Irish Troubles, Northern Ireland, 1968-1998
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In Jerusalem and Northern Ireland, territorial disputes have often seemed indivisible, unable to be solved through negotiation, and prone to violence and war. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conflicts were the inevitable result of clashing identities, religions, and attachments to the land. On the contrary, it was radical political rhetoric, and not ancient hatreds, that rendered these territories indivisible. Stacie Goddard traces the roots of territorial indivisibility to politicians' strategies for legitimating their claims to territory. When bargaining over territory, politicians utilize rhetoric to appeal to their domestic audiences and undercut the claims of their opponents. However, this strategy has unintended consequences; by resonating with some coalitions and appearing unacceptable to others, politicians' rhetoric can lock them into positions in which they are unable to recognize the legitimacy of their opponent's demands. As a result, politicians come to negotiations with incompatible claims, constructing territory as indivisible.
Nationalism --- Political violence --- Rhetoric --- Partition, Territorial --- Political aspects --- Ireland --- History --- Divided states --- Partitioned states --- States, Divided --- States, Partitioned --- Territorial partition --- Administrative and political divisions --- Dismemberment of nations --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Jerusalem --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Nationalism - Northern Ireland --- Political violence - Northern Ireland --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Northern Ireland --- Political violence - Jerusalem --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Jerusalem --- Partition, Territorial - Case studies --- Ireland - History - Partition, 1921
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