Confronting a troubled history: Which past in Northern Ireland's museums?

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-136

  Crooke, Elizabeth ^a  

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Author keywords

Contested Heritage; Identity; Interpretation of History; Museums; Northern Ireland; Social Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 32744463956     PISSN: 13527258     EISSN: 14703610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13527250120060169     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. D. Lowenthal, 'Remembering to forget' , Museums Journal, June 1993
2. C. O'Grada, The Great Irish Famine, London: Macmillan, 1989. See introduction
3. M. Robinson, 'Preface' , in S. Campbell, The Great Irish Famine: words and images from the Famine Museum Strokestown Park Co. Roscommon, The Famine Museum, 1994
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5. M. O' Halloran, 'Straight for the jugular' , Irish Times, 17 August 1995
6. o ' , Irish Times, 22 May 1997
7. This is also recorded on information leaflets published by the department about the site: Tully Castle, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, 1984
8. G. Kavanagh, Dream spaces, memory and the museum, Leicester, Leicester University Press, 2000, pp. 16- 23
9. The Imperial War Museum in London recently opened an exhibition on the Holocaust and their Web site provides links to other museums and related institutions. The Project Director wrote a paper on this exhibition published in History Today, June 2000
10. S. Nuttall & C. Coetzee. (eds) Negotiating the past: the making of memory in South Africa, Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998. See, for instance, the essays included in Part III on the subject of 'Museums, memorials and public memory'
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14. Review of museums and galleries in Northern Ireland, Museums and Galleries Commission, 1983
15. E.E. Evans, 'Archaeology in Ulster since 1920' , Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 31, 1968, pp. 3- 84
16. A. Walsh, 'Planning and developing a museums framework for Northern Ireland' , in M. Fitzgibbon & A. Kelly (eds) From maestro to manager, Dublin: Oak Tree Press, 1997, p. 102
17. These are outlined in the report: A forward plan for the mid-Antrim Museums Service written by William Blair, Museums Service Officer, Ballymena Borough Council, 2000
18. B. Lacey, 'The Derry Museum Service and the regeneration of the city' , Museum Ireland, 1993, p. 57
19. In 1993 it was 'specially commended' by European Museum of the Year Awards and was named Irish Museum of the Year. See B. Lacey, 'Untangling the knots of myth and history: developing a museum service for Derry' , Causeway, Autumn 1994
20. See The Sentinel, 10 September 1992 and 30 July 1992
21. Newsletter , December 1996 and The Times, 26 December 1996
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23. A. Smith, Education and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, CAIN Web Service, 1999
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25. M. Fitzduff, Approaches to community relations work, CRC Pamphlet No. 1, 3rd edn, 1993. At the time of the publication of this pamphlet Fitzduff was the Director of the Community Relations Council
26. NIMC & NIRCG, Local identities exhibition guide, 1999
27. The exhibitions are reviewed by V. Pollock, 'Local identities at Armagh and Fermanagh County Museums', Museum Ireland, Vol. 10, 2000, pp. 68- 74
28. C. McGuickan, Local identities exhibition guide, NIMC & NIRCG, 1999
29. See, for instance, T. Bennett, The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics, London: Routledge, 1995
30. A. Wilson, A review of the major museums of Northern Ireland 'A Time For Change' , Department of Education, Northern Ireland, 1995, p. 49
31. M. McAleese, Remarks by the President Mary McAleese at the presentation of the Gulbenkian Foundation and Heritage Council Awards at Dublin Castle, Office of the Secretary to the President, 1998
32. M. McAleese, Irish Times, 12 November 1998
33. J. Leonard 'Lest we forget' , in D. Fitzpatrick (ed.) Ireland and the First World War, Dublin: Trinity History Workshop, 1986, pp. 59- 67
34. R. Ingle, Irish Times, 2 August 2000
35. For reference to the Maze prison site as the location for a 'centre of sporting excellence' see Hansard, Northern Ireland Assembly, Debate on 2 October 2000. For coverage of the debate on whether the prison building should become a museum see, for instance, the Belfast Telegraph on 26 & 31 July 2000
36. Originally known as the Orange Culture Society, this group is made up of a committee of eight volunteers who research the collections and mount exhibitions. Since first forming in the mid-1990s the group has mounted over eighty exhibitions in the north and south of Ireland and in cross-community venues (Noel McIlfatrick, pers. commun., December 2000)
37. E. Hobsbawm & T. Ranger The invention of tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
38. There are a number of books published on this subject: see, for instance, E. Crooke, Politics, archaeology and the creation of a national museum in Ireland, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2000
39. J. Hutchinson, The dynamics of cultural nationalism, London: Allen & Unwin, 1987
40. O. MacDonagh, W.F. Mandle & P. Travers, Irish culture and nationalism 1750- 1950, Dublin: Macmillan, 1983
41. Languages of Ulster, pocket guide, Linen Hall Library, 2000. See Introduction
42. For instance, Fintan O'Toole recently wrote in the Irish Times, in an article titled 'Art has not reflected our grief ' , that 'Ireland's museums have neglected the troubles and have shied away from building memorials to those who died in the conflict' , Irish Times, 1 August 2000
43. K. Bloomfield, We will remember them, Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commissioner, April 1998