Winner, Wayland Hand Competition for outstanding publication in folklore and history, American Folklore Society
Finalist, award for the best book published about or growing out of public history, National Council on Public History
Winner, Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize for the best study of folklore or folk life in Great Britain and Ireland
An important and beautifully produced work. Guy Beiner here shows himself to be a historian of unusual talent. Marianne Elliott, Times Literary Supplement
Thoroughly researched and scholarly. . . . Beiner s work is full of empathy and sympathy for the human remains, memorials, and commemorations of past lives and the multiple ways in which they actually continue to live. Stiofan O Cadhla, Journal of British Studies
A major contribution to Irish historiography. Maureen Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement
"A remarkable piece of scholarship . . . . Accessible, full of intriguing detail, and eminently teachable. ? Ray Casman, New Hibernia Review
The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years. Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review
A strikingly ambitious work . . . . Elegantly constructed, lucidly written and inspired, and displaying an inexhaustible capacity for research Ciaran Brady, History IRELAND
A closely argued, meticulously detailed and rich analysis . . . . providing such innovative treatment of a wide array of sources, his work will resonate with the concerns of many cultural and historical geographers working on social memory in quite different geographical settings and historical contexts. Yvonne Whelan, Journal of Historical Geography