Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events—the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798—and folkloric representations of those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland’s archives and rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that had gone largely unnoticed by historians. Though his focus is 1798, his work is also a comprehensive study of Irish folk history and of grassroots social memory.
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“The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years.” --Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review
“Based on massive research. . . . [Beiner] demonstrates effectively how orally transmitted local memories have contributed to historical knowledge about the 1798 French invasion of western Ireland, as well as much else about the Irish past.” --Choice
“A book of impressive scholarship and striking originality.” --Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Field Day Review
“Based on massive research. . . . [Beiner] demonstrates effectively how orally transmitted local memories have contributed to historical knowledge about the 1798 French invasion of western Ireland, as well as much else about the Irish past.” --Choice
“A book of impressive scholarship and striking originality.” --Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Field Day Review
About the Author
Guy Beiner is lecturer in history at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He has been a research fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and an NEH Keough Irish Studies Fellow at Notre Dame University, and he is author of many articles on modern Irish history and memory.
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