'Trying to reach the future through the past': Murals and memory in Northern Ireland

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-307

  Rolston, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collective memory; identity; murals; Reimaging Communities Programme; revisionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651228618     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659010382335     Document Type: Review

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