Eleanor Radcliffe

• BA (Hons) History
• Memory making in post-conflict societies: the decade of commemorations in Northern Ireland.

2012-2023 marks the centenary commemoration of the Irish Revolution in Ireland. Therefore, the reopening of debates about shared history and identity is inevitable. The use of memory by the two religious communities in Northern Ireland will be the focus of this study, specifically based around the commemorations of 2016 (the centenary of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising). I will look at how effective the construction of new memories has been in enabling Northern Ireland to ‘come to terms’ with its past, and the role of history and the historian in reconciliation.

Funding Source: Newcastle University