| Abstract | The commemoration of the participation of Irishmen in the British army in the first World War has reflected the political divisions on the island. This article focuses on the Irish National War Memorial, which was built in the 1930s in Dublin but only officially opened in the 1990s, and analyses the cultural life of this monument in relation to the difficult integration of a marginalized group into the dominant national narrative. The case is used to support a call for an integrated study of collective remembrance that takes into account both its multi-medial character and the dynamic interplay between cultural and social processes.
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