Europe's Violent Memories 2013-2016 by TLRHub

This three-year series of public lectures at Trinity College Dublin delivered by eminent international scholars in different disciplines, such as history, literary and film studies and memory studies explored how war, its traumas and its contested memories have proved pivotal to the formation of European identities in the 20th century.

In 2013-14, the centenary of the First World War, the series explored the nature and legacy of that conflict down to the present.

In 2014-15, the seventieth anniversary of 1945, the focus was on the extreme violence of the Second World War and the ways in which this has shaped subsequent European memories and identities.

The final year, 2015-16, re-examined the legacies of the Easter Rising at its centenary and of Ireland’s revolutionary decade more generally. It located the founding decade of modern Ireland in the context of Europe and the non-European world over the last hundred years, including inter-war Eastern Europe, post-1945 decolonization and Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles.’

Contains tracks

• Instant History: 1912, 1916, 1918 by TLRHub
• Living with the Memory of Violence? Europe's Twentieth Century Post-war Periods by TLRHub
• The Irish Revolution and India by TLRHub
• Competing Victimhoods? How Poles and other Eastern Europeans Commemorate their Violent Pasts by TLRHub
• A time of silence? Legacies of the Civil War in Spain after Franco by TLRHub