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Chapter 2 - Remembering to Forget

Ireland, the War of the Two Kings and Cultural Amnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Leith Davis
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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Chapter 2 considers the archipelagic impact of the 1688 Revolution by examining the the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688–91). It analyzes how Irish events were mediated in newspapers such as the Orange Gazette and the London Gazette, both in the news stories and in advertisements for printed works such as maps, Richard Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana (1689) and James Farewell’s The Irish Hudibras (1689). It focuses on how the media event surrounding the relief of the siege of Derry shaped English perceptions of the rest of the conflict in Ireland. The importance of Derry was amplified by the visit of George Walker to London and by thanksgiving services held in churches in London. By examining the representation of the siege in John Mitchelburne’s Ireland Preserv’d (1705), this chapter also assesses how Ireland was subsequently erased from the memory of the so-called “Glorious Revolution” in Britain.

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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising
, pp. 68 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Remembering to Forget
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.003
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  • Remembering to Forget
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.003
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  • Remembering to Forget
  • Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book: Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 10 March 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039765.003
Available formats
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