Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Geography, landscape and memory -- Time, memory and representation -- Space, memory and representation -- Remembering the First World War -- 2 A call to arms: recruitment poster and propaganda -- Political and cultural background -- Recruiting an army in Ireland: the early years -- Motivating men: war propaganda -- Interpreting posters -- Irish war propaganda -- Recruitment pamphlets -- Drawing support: recruitment posters -- Conclusion -- 3 Parading memory: peace day celebrations -- The politics of memory -- The spectacle of memory -- The spectacle of remembrance: Peace Day 19th July 1919 -- Celebrating peace around the country -- Ulster remembers: Peace Day August 1919 -- Belfast's 1919 parade -- Conclusion -- 4 Sculpting memory: space, memorials and rituals of remembrance -- Irish National War Memorial -- Church memorials -- Mapping memory in the public sphere -- National war memorial revisited -- Conclusion -- 5 Scripting memory: literary landscapes and the war experience -- Dramatising war: Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie -- Act I: Confronting war on the Home Front -- Act II: The ritual of war on the Western Front -- Act III: Recuperating mind and body in a Dublin hospital -- Act IV: Dancing to death at the Avondale Football Club -- Situating 'The Silver Tassie' -- Combating war: Irish soldiers as writers -- Irish war poets -- Irish war novelists -- Liam O'Flaherty and the theme of bestiality -- Patrick MacGill: the navvy soldier -- Conclusion -- 6 Remembering the Easter Rebellion 1916 -- The drama of Easter week 1916 -- Cast in bronze: Cuchulain -- Burying the dead: the National Grave Association -- Official commemoration 1966 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Newspapers and journals -- Index.