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

Guy Beiner

Forgetful Remembrance offers a new approach to the study of memory by focusing on vernacular historiographies and the notion of forgetting. Using the 1798 Irish Rebellion, Beiner explores how communities try to obscure inconvenient and uncomfortable events from the past.

HistoryHistory · high confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryAward Category: American History -> American HistoryDeath, Memory & CommemorationRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
American Historical Association Book Prizes: George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History2019WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Ulster82%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Beiner shows that communities, using vernacular historiographies, try to obscure inconvenient or uncomfortable events from the past, exemplified through the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    72 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.