Divided pasts: A premature memorial and the dynamics of collective remembrance

Memory Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-97

  Rigney, Ann ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consensus and contestation; First World War; Ireland; Mnemonic communities; Prospective memory making; Synthetic memory sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549140130     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007083892     Document Type: Article

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