Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster

Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants – and in particular Presbyterians – repeatedly tried to repress over two centuries discomfiting