Hazley, Barry 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1759-5456
(2021)
The Vicissitudes of Forgetting: Military Intervention and the Memory of the Troubles in Britain.
JOURNAL OF WAR & CULTURE STUDIES, 14 (1).
pp. 45-69.
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Abstract
The Northern Ireland Troubles was Britain's longest and largest post-war conflict, involving the deployment of some 300,000 military personnel over a 35-year period. Curiously, however, while the formal ending of the conflict in 1998 has generated profuse memorialisation in Northern Ireland, remembrance of the conflict in Britain has been conspicuously muted. This article uses newspaper reportage, popular cartoons, official reports and the records of a public campaign to explore the origins and evolution of negative attitudes towards the Troubles in Britain, focusing especially on reactions to military intervention during its early years. Where mainstream histories of post-war Britain emphasise popular ‘indifference’ to the Troubles in Britain, the article suggests attitudes to Northern Ireland reflected popular aversion, transmuted into apathy over the longer term as a result of an active and state-managed process of forgetting. These processes, it is suggested, continue to affect how Northern Ireland is perceived in the present.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Northern Ireland, the Troubles, British cultural memory, Irish Memory Studies, forgetting, military intervention |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2020 07:54 |
| Last Modified: | 26 May 2023 16:26 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17526272.2021.1873550 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3089275 |
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