Making 1916 : material and visual culture of the Easter Rising / edited by Lisa Godson and Joanna Brück.
Contributor(s): Godson, Lisa [editor. ]
| Brück, Joanna [editor. ].
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BookPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015Description: xviii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781381229.Subject(s): Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 941.50821 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term - an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising - from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards - have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin's General Post Office, and 'official' souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the 'things' of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-284) and index.
Section 1: The Fabric of the Rising -- The fabric of a deathless dream: a short introduction to the origins and meanings of the 1916 tricolour flag / Brian Hand -- The unmilitary appearance of the 1916 Rebels / Jane Tynan -- Beating the retreat: the final hours of the Easter Rising / Franc Myles -- The constitution of a state yet to come: the unbroken promise of the Half-Proclamation / Daniel Jewesbury -- What is a forgery or a catalyst? The so-called Castle Document of Holy Week 1916 / Bill Mc Cormack -- The aftermath of the Rising in cinema newsreels / Ciara Chambers -- Section 2: The Affective Bonds of the Rising -- Portraits and propaganda: photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in The Catholic Bulletin / Orla Fitzpatrick -- After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting but not before . Ephemera and the construction of personal responses to the Easter Rising / Jack Elliott -- Nationalism, gender and memory: internment camp craftwork, 1916-1923 / Joanna Brück -- Female prison autograph books: (re)remembering the Easter Rising through the experiences of Irish Civil War imprisonment / Laura McAtackney -- Pearse s profile: the making of an icon / Brian Crowley -- Section 3: Revivalism and the Rising -- Dublin Civic Week and the materialisation of history / Elaine Sisson -- Redesigning the Rising: typographic commemorations of 1916 / Mary Ann Bolger -- The Capuchin Annual: visual art and the legacy of 1916, one generation on / Róisín Kennedy -- National Revival dress and 1916 / Hilary O Kelly -- Section 4: Remembering the Rising -- Displaying the nation: the 1916 exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland (1932-1991) / Lar Joye and Brenda Malone -- A story of absence and recovery: the Easter Rising in museums in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke -- History, materiality and the myth of 1916 / Pat Cooke -- Place versus memory: forgetting Ireland s sites of independence? / Damian Shiels -- Of all the trials not to paint . Sir John Lavery s painting High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Roger Casement 1916 / Catherine Marshall -- Dusty fingers of time : photography, materials memory and 1916 / Justin Carville -- Religion, ritual and the performance of memory in the Irish Free State / Lisa Godson -- Afterword: Lost city of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of Empire / Nicholas Allen.
"The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin s General Post Office, and official souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the things of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory." - Publisher's description.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. ix)
- List of tables (p. xv)
- List of contributors (p. xvii)
- Approaching the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising: an introduction (p. 1)
- I The fabric of the Rising
- Introduction (p. 14)
- 1 The fabric of a deathless dream: a short introduction to the origins and meanings of the 1916 tricolour flag (p. 16)
- 2 The unmilitary appearance of the 1916 rebels (p. 25)
- 3 Beating the retreat: the final hours of the Easter Rising (p. 34)
- 4 The constitution of a state yet to come: the unbroken promise of the 'Half-Proclamation' (p. 49)
- 5 What is a forgery or a catalyst? The so-called 'Castle Document' of Holy Week, 1916 (p. 57)
- 6 The 'aftermath' of the Rising in cinema newsreels (p. 70)
- II The affective bonds of the Rising
- Introduction (p. 80)
- 7 Portraits and propaganda: photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in the Catholic Bulletin (p. 82)
- 8 'After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting but not before': ephemera and the construction of personal responses to the Easter Rising (p. 91)
- 9 Nationalism, gender and memory: internment camp craftwork, 1916-1923 (p. 99)
- 10 Female prison autograph books: (re)remembering the Easter Rising through the experiences of Irish Civil War imprisonment (p. 108)
- 11 Pearse's profile: the making of an icon (p. 117)
- III Revivalism and the Rising
- Introduction (p. 136)
- 12 Dublin Civic Week and the materialisation of history (p. 138)
- 13 Redesigning the Rising: typographic commemorations of 1916 (p. 146)
- 14 The Capuchin Annual: visual art and the legacy of 1916, one generation on (p. 154)
- 15 Dressing rebellion: national revival dress and 1916 (p. 164)
- IV Remembering the Rising
- Introduction (p. 178)
- 16 Displaying the nation: the 1916 Exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, 1932-1991 (p. 180)
- 17 A story of absence and recovery: the Easter Rising in museums in Northern Ireland (p. 194)
- 18 History, materiality and the myth of 1916 (p. 203)
- 19 Place versus memory: forgetting Ireland's sites of independence? (p. 217)
- 20 'Of all the trials not to paint ...': Sir John Lavery's painting High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Roger Casement 1916 (p. 226)
- 21 'Dusty fingers of time': photography, materials memory and 1916 (p. 235)
- 22 Ritual, religion and the performance of memory in the Irish Free State (p. 249)
- Afterword: Lost city of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of empire (p. 255)
- References (p. 266)
- Index (p. 285)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Lisa Godson is Lecturer in Design History and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.Joanna Brck is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.