| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Nuala C. Johnson. Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance. (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, number 35.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 192. $60.00.
Nuala C. Johnson's book is certainly ambitious. Although Ireland's memory of the Great War is no longer neglected, it still occupies a particularly contentious place in the country's historiography. The interdisciplinary approach of the historical geographer is one that can only be welcomed when historiography still seems largely preoccupied with whether or not Irish men should have fought at all. In this case, however, one is more sobered than inspired. While there is much that is worthy in the approach Johnson takes—for example, the detailed assessment of the role and influence of recruiting posters and the geographical analysis of the Easter Rising of 1916—the range of material she attempts to cover is too wide and too disparate to offer anything of real coherence to the debate. Apart from the posters, there are the peace day parades, the memorials, the literature, and the memory of the Rising to contend with, all placed within the context of many and varied theoretical frameworks. It is simply too much.	1
The chapter on recruiting posters is the longest and perhaps the finest; the copious number of illustrations denotes the book's most extensive use of primary source materials. The extent to which these posters can be held responsible for the memories of the war that emerged in the years that followed is somewhat overstated; the realities of the war itself and the dramatic political changes in Ireland during and immediately after the war did so much more to shape the memory and the memorialization of the dead than any poster ever could.	. . .

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