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OverviewThe 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term – an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising – from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards – have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin’s General Post Office, and ‘official’ souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the ‘things’ of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design Dublin (Ireland)) , Joanna Brück (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol (United Kingdom))Publisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9781781381229ISBN 10: 1781381224 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 14 September 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Joanna Brück and Lisa Godson Approaching the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising Section 1: The Fabric of the Rising Brian Hand The fabric of a deathless dream: a short introduction to the origins and meanings of the 1916 tricolour flag Jane Tynan The unmilitary appearance of the 1916 Rebels Franc Myles Beating the retreat: the final hours of the Easter Rising Daniel Jewesbury The constitution of a state yet to come: the unbroken promise of the Half-Proclamation Bill Mc Cormack What is a forgery or a catalyst? The so-called ‘Castle Document’ of Holy Week 1916 Ciara Chambers The ‘aftermath’ of the Rising in cinema newsreels Section 2: The Affective Bonds of the Rising Orla Fitzpatrick Portraits and propaganda: photographs of the widows and children of the 1916 leaders in The Catholic Bulletin Jack Elliott ‘After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting but not before’. Ephemera and the construction of personal responses to the Easter Rising Joanna Brück Nationalism, gender and memory: internment camp craftwork, 1916-1923 Laura McAtackney Female prison autograph books: (re)remembering the Easter Rising through the experiences of Irish Civil War imprisonment Brian Crowley Pearse’s profile: the making of an icon Section 3: Revivalism and the Rising Elaine Sisson – Dublin Civic Week and the materialisation of history Mary Ann Bolger Redesigning the Rising: typographic commemorations of 1916 Róisín Kennedy The Capuchin Annual: visual art and the legacy of 1916, one generation on Hilary O’Kelly National Revival dress and 1916 Section 4: Remembering the Rising Lar Joye and Brenda Malone Displaying the nation: the 1916 exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland (1932-1991) Elizabeth Crooke A story of absence and recovery: the Easter Rising in museums in Northern Ireland Pat Cooke History, materiality and the myth of 1916 Damian Shiels Place versus memory: forgetting Ireland’s sites of independence? Catherine Marshall ‘Of all the trials not to paint…’. Sir John Lavery’s painting High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Roger Casement 1916 Justin Carville ‘Dusty fingers of time’: photography, materials memory and 1916 Lisa Godson Religion, ritual and the performance of memory in the Irish Free State Afterword Nicholas Allen Lost city of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of EmpireReviewsThis important book explores the material and visual culture around the Rising. Lisa Godson and Joanna Bruck have assembled essays from 23 contributors to comment on a plethora of objects, clothes, photographs, paintings, documents and buildings that provide us with a new set of angles on the events that convulsed Ireland 100 years ago. Author InformationLisa Godson is Lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Joanna Brück is Reader in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol. 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