Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page ix)
Preface (page xi)
Acknowledgments (page xiii)
List of Abbreviations (page xviii)
Phonetic Note (page xix)
INTRODUCTION---Recycling the Dustbin of History
To Speak of Ninety-Eight (page 5)
PART 1---Collecting Memory
1. Oral History and Social Memory (page 17)
2. Irish Folklore Collections (page 34)
3. Richard Hayes and The Last Invasion of Ireland (page 62)
4. Ancillary Folk History Sources (page 69)
PART 2---Folk History
5. History-Telling (page 81)
6. Practitioners of Folk History (page 115)
7. Time and Calendar (page 124)
PART 3---Democratic History
8. Who Were the Men of the West? (page 139)
9. Multiple Heroes in Folk Historiographies (page 168)
10. Who Were the Women of the West? (page 185)
PART 4---Commemorating History
11. Spheres and Mediums of Remembrance (page 201)
12. Topographies of Folk Commemoration (page 208)
13. Souvenirs (page 231)
14. Ceremonies, Monuments, and Negotiations of Memory (page 243)
15. Mediations of Remembrance (page 276)
16. Memory and Oblivion (page 304)
CONCLUSION---Alternative History
Archaeologies of Social Memory (page 313)
EPILOGUE---Commemorative Heritage
Remembrance in the Late Twentieth Century (page 325)
Notes (page 335)
Selected Bibliography (page 415)
Index (page 445)