Ulster University’s Professor Elizabeth Crooke will deliver the second Island Voices lecture at the Tower Museum in Derry on Thursday, 20 October next.
The lecture, titled ‘Remembrance and Neglect: Negotiating 1916 in 2016’, will explore the idea of heritage and allegiance by looking at the contribution of commemoration to identity building and how, in recent years, this has been renegotiated, focusing in particular on the Easter Rising and the First World War.
Pól Ó Frighil, Irish Language Officer at Derry City and Strabane District Council said, ‘The Island Voices theme this year concentrates on the complex and sometimes contested relationships which exist between language, identity and nationhood. We are delighted to have Professor Elizabeth Crooke offering her insight into how historical events, once viewed as being associated with one section of the community, are now recognised as our ‘shared history’.
Elizabeth Crooke (pictured) is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University where she leads the ‘Engaging the Past’ research cluster in the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She has also published ‘Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2008)’ and ‘Politics Archaeology and the creation of a national museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000)’.
She is currently working in the areas of community, biography and material culture and is Co-Investigator on the AHRC and HLF funded project ‘Living Legacies 1914-18: From past conflict to shared future’.
She is also chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Northern Ireland Museums Council and sits on the Board of Directors of the Irish Museums Association.
The final lecture of the Island Voices series will take place on Thursday, 24 November, with Irish language author Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh discussing ‘The Irish Language and the Rising’.
All lectures are free of charge and will include lunch. Lunch will be available from 12:30pm until 1:00pm and lectures will be from 1:00pm until 2:00pm.
For more information or to book places, contact the Tower Museum on (028) 7137 2411 or email tower.reception@derrystrabane.com.
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