The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials
This paper examines the memorialisation of the Sherwood Foresters who fought during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. These men, from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the English midlands, suffered the greatest casualties of the British regiments involved in the insurrection, and participated in...
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| description | This paper examines the memorialisation of the Sherwood Foresters who fought during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. These men, from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the English midlands, suffered the greatest casualties of the British regiments involved in the insurrection, and participated in the firing squads that executed the rebel leaders. Yet the public and artistic memorialising of these English soldiers is not widely known, and this interdisciplinary paper seeks to tell the unfamiliar story of what happened to the Sherwood Foresters after the fighting of Easter Week ceased. We use archival material in order to explore how, at the time of the Rising, these men believed that they would be remembered. We examine the way that the Sherwood Foresters of Easter Week subsequently appeared in literature and drama. And we analyse the way that those soldiers have been commemorated in funerary memorials. |
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| spelling | nottingham-520352020-03-12T04:30:15Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52035/ The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials Moran, James Cullen, Fintan This paper examines the memorialisation of the Sherwood Foresters who fought during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. These men, from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the English midlands, suffered the greatest casualties of the British regiments involved in the insurrection, and participated in the firing squads that executed the rebel leaders. Yet the public and artistic memorialising of these English soldiers is not widely known, and this interdisciplinary paper seeks to tell the unfamiliar story of what happened to the Sherwood Foresters after the fighting of Easter Week ceased. We use archival material in order to explore how, at the time of the Rising, these men believed that they would be remembered. We examine the way that the Sherwood Foresters of Easter Week subsequently appeared in literature and drama. And we analyse the way that those soldiers have been commemorated in funerary memorials. Taylor & Francis 2018-09-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52035/1/1916%20paper%20%28REVISED%20March%202018%29%5B2%5D.pdf Moran, James and Cullen, Fintan (2018) The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials. Irish Studies Review . ISSN 0967-0882 Easter Rising; Sherwood Foresters; Literature; Great War; Cemeteries https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2018.1514659 doi:10.1080/09670882.2018.1514659 doi:10.1080/09670882.2018.1514659 |
| spellingShingle | Easter Rising; Sherwood Foresters; Literature; Great War; Cemeteries Moran, James Cullen, Fintan The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title | The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title_full | The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title_fullStr | The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title_short | The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| title_sort | sherwood foresters of 1916: memories and memorials |
| topic | Easter Rising; Sherwood Foresters; Literature; Great War; Cemeteries |
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