Local conditions, global environment and transnational discourses in memory work: The case of Bloody Sunday (1972)

Memory Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-209

  Conway, Brian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Commemoration; Derry; Northern Ireland

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049101433     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007088385     Document Type: Article

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