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Summary:

"Derry is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and has had a Catholic majority since 1850. It was witness to some of the most important events of the civil rights movement and the Troubles. This study examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the 1960s and the start of the Troubles. Plotting the relationships between community memory and historic change, Margo Shea provides a rich and nuanced account of the cultural, political, and social history of Derry using archival research, oral histories, landscape analysis, and public speeches. Looking through the lens of the memories Catholics cultivated and nurtured as well as the memories they contested, she illuminates Derry's Catholics' understandings of themselves and their Irish cultural and political identities through the decades that saw Home Rule, Partition, and four significant political redistricting schemes designed to maintain unionist political majorities in the largely Catholic and nationalist city. Shea weaves local history sources, community folklore, and political discourse together to demonstrate how communities maintain their agency in the midst of political and cultural conflict. As a result, the book invites a reconsideration of the genesis of the Troubles and reframes discussions of the "problem" of Irish memory. It will be of interest to students and scholars of memory, modern and contemporary British and Irish history, public history, the history of colonization, and popular cultural history"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: One. Situating the Past in Deny
• Two. From under the Heel of the Minority: Challenging Protestant Memory and Power in Pre-Border Deny, 1896-1922
• Three. Against the Wishes of the Inhabitants: Memory as Mooring in "Castaway" Deny, 1922-1945
• Four. Tickling the Lions Tale, 1945-1962
• Five. Sulphur in the Air, 1963-1968
• Six. Old Derry's Last Stand, 1969.

Author/Creator:

Shea, Margo, 1970- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Derry City: memory and political struggle in Northern Ireland [by Shea, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Derry City [by Shea, M.] (Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020] — ISBN 9780268107963; LCCN 2020007552)

Subjects:

Derry (Northern Ireland) — History — 20th century

Christianity and politics — Northern Ireland — Derry

Catholics — Political activity — Northern Ireland — Derry

Religious tolerance — Northern Ireland — Derry

Nationalism and collective memory — Northern Ireland — Derry

Group identity — Northern Ireland — Derry

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DA995.L75 S54 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780268107963 (electronic bk.)
0268107963 (electronic bk.)
9780268107932 [Invalid]
0268107939 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1149243098

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6262745 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16844255