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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2026-03-17</publicationDate>
        <volume>21</volume>
    <issue>21</issue>
        <startPage>131</startPage>
    <endPage>139</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>14114</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Remembering for the Future ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Maurice Fitzpatrick ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
      </author>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ Sciences Po Paris, France ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ This article problematises the State’s role in decreeing, overseeing and promulgating “official history” and explores the work of museum curators, historical filmmakers and public historians to expose the complexity that vitiates official narratives about that past, citing examples from around the world. Applying the dissonance in motives and values to Irish history, the article examines how attempts to control the narrative of the Troubles are symptomatic of a failure of recognition of the past and a recoil from the reconciliation process required for Ireland’s evolving future.
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    <fullTextUrl format="pdf">https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Fitzpatrick_2026.pdf</fullTextUrl>
    
          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Legacy</keyword>
              <keyword>future</keyword>
              <keyword>responsibility</keyword>
              <keyword>memory</keyword>
              <keyword>revisionism</keyword>
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