Rethinking difficult pasts: Bloody Sunday (1972) as a case study

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 397-413

  Conway, Brian ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bloody Sunday; Commemoration; Controlled consensus; Memorials; Memory; Northern Ireland; Social movement organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450265303     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975509105539     Document Type: Article

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