Honest Commemoration: Reconciling women’s ‘troubled’ and ‘troubling’ history in centennial Ireland (MUSSI Working Paper Series, no.9)

Ireland is in the throes of a decade of commemoration. The process of commemorating the tumultuous revolutionary events that led to the establishment of the Irish state a century ago has incorporated government sponsorship of events, public debate, cultural interventions and exciting new academic scholarship on the period of revolution. The outputs of the first stage of the government’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’ program 1912-1916 – including conferences, books, studies, concerts, documentaries, public events and drama – were most impressive (https://www.decadeofcentenaries.com/category/official-commemoration/