From Director to Coordinator: The Irish State and the Official Commemoration of the Easter Rising in 1966 and 2016

Abstrakt

The chapter analyses the changing role of the Irish state in the official commemoration of the Easter Rising in 1966 (50th anniversary) and 2016 (centenary) and the underlying messages the organisers attempted to communicate in the commamorations.

Klíčová slova

• Ireland
• Easter Rising centenary
• commemoration
• memory
• role of the state