Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape

166 Pages·2007·1.71 MB·english

by  Niamh Moore

HERITAGE, MEMORY AND THE POLITICS
OF IDENTITY
Heritage, Culture and Identity
Series Editor: Brian Graham,
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, UK
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Heritage, Memory and the
Politics of Identity
New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape
Edited by
NIAMH MOORE andYVONNE WHELAN
© Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan 2007
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Heritage, memory and the politics of identity : new
perspectives on the cultural landscape
1. Group identity 2. Collective memory 3. Memorialization
4. Cultural property
I. Moore, Niamh II. Whelan, Yvonne
305.8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heritage, memory and the politics of identity : new perspectives on the cultural
landscape / edited by Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan.
p. cm. -- (Heritage, culture and identity)
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-4008-0 1. Art and society. 2. Cultural property.
3. Historic sites. 4. Collective memory. 5. Group identity. I. Moore, Niamh. II.
Whelan, Yvonne.
N72.S6H45 2007
306.4'7--dc22
2006025028
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4008-0
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Maps and Tables viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface x
PART I Landscape, Memory and Identity
1 Landscape and Memory: Historiography, Theory, Methodology 3
Tadhg O’Keeffe
2 Memory, Identity and the Memorialization of Conflict
in the Scottish Highlands 19
Iain Robertson and Tim Hall
3 The Battle for Annie Moore: Sculpting an Irish American Identity
at Ellis Island National Monument 37
Joanne Maddern
4 Constructing Famine Memory: The Role of Monuments 55
John Crowley
5 ‘Fostered To Trouble the Next Generation’: Contesting the Ownership
of the Martyrs Commemoration Ritual in Manchester 1888–1921 69
Mervyn Busteed
PART II The Politics of Heritage and the Cultural Landscape
6 Changing Conceptions of Heritage and Landscape 85
Paul Claval
7 Valorizing Urban Heritage? Redevelopment in a Changing City 95
Niamh M. Moore
8 Moving Buildings and Changing History 109
Stephen F. Mills
vi Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity
9 Military Heritage, Identity and Development: A Case Study
of Elvas, Portugal 121
João Luís Jesus Fernandes and Paulo Carvalho
10 Landscapes in the Living Memory: New Year Festivities
at Angkor, Cambodia 133
Tim Winter
Index 149
List of Figures
Figure 1.1 Remembering War at the Cenotaph, Belfast, November 2004 7
Figure 1.2 Moore Street, Dublin, November 2005 11
Figure 1.3 Railway Street (formerly Mecklenburgh Street), Dublin,
December 2005 14
Figure 1.4 Mabbot Lane, Dublin 15
Figure 2.1 Memorial to the Pairc Deer Raiders at Balallan 25
Figure 2.2 Memorial to the Aignish Rioters 26
Figure 2.3 Memorial to the Coll and Gress Land Raiders at Gress 27
Figure 2.4 Memorial to the Upper Coll Land Raiders 30
Figure 2.5 Memorial to the Bernera Riot 31
Figure 3.1 A Selection of Irish-American Memorabilia Displayed
in a Cabinet in the Ellis Island Gift Shop 40
Figure 3.2 A Life-size Bronze Sculpture of Annie Moore, Displayed
in the Main Building on Ellis Island 41
Figure 3.3 A Section of the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, New York 42
Figure 4.1 Statue of Queen Victoria as Displayed in the Universitas
Exhibition, UCC in 1995 57
Figure 4.2 John Behan’s Famine Ship, County Mayo 59
Figure 4.3 Edward Delaney’s Famine Memorial, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 61
Figure 4.4 Famine Memorial, Custom House Quay, Dublin 62
Figure 4.5 Detail of Famine Memorial, Custom House Quay, Dublin 63
Figure 7.1 Stack A Prior to Redevelopment 100
Figure 7.2 Interior Structure of Stack A Prior to Redevelopment 101
Figure 7.3 Stack A after Conservation and Redevelopment 105
Figure 10.1 Afternoon Picnicking at Angkor Wat 141
Figure 10.2 Swimming at West Baray 142
Figure 10.3 New Year Celebratory Truck Driving 145
List of Maps and Tables
Maps
Map 2.1 Location of Memorial Sites on Lewis 23
Map 5.1a Processional Routes Used in the Manchester Martyrs
Commemoration Rituals, 1888–1907 73
Map 5.1b Processional Routes Used in the Manchester Martyrs
Commemoration Rituals, 1908–1921 73
Map 9.1 The Location of Elvas 124
Map 9.2 The Historic Centre of Elvas 125
Tables
Table 7.1 Proposed Uses for Stack A, 1986–2001 103
Notes on Contributors
Mervyn Busteed is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester.
Paulo Carvalho is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Estudos Geográficos,
University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Paul Claval is Professor Emeritus, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV.
John Crowley is a Lecturer in Geography at University College Cork.
João Luís Jesus Fernandes is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Estudos
Geográficos, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Tim Hall is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Gloucestershire.
Joanne Maddern is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Dundee.
Stephen F. Mills is a Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Landscape Studies at Keele
University.
Niamh M. Moore is a Lecturer in Geography at University College Dublin.
Tadhg O’Keefe is a Associate Professor of Archaeology at University College
Dublin.
Iain Robertson is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Gloucestershire.
Yvonne Whelan is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol.
Tim Winter is CHASS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney.