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A royal encounter: space, spectacle and the Queen's visit to Ireland 2011
Article first published online: 28 NOV 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00454.x
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JOHNSON, N. C. (2012), A royal encounter: space, spectacle and the Queen's visit to Ireland 2011. The Geographical Journal, 178: 194–200. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00454.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 1 AUG 2012
- Article first published online: 28 NOV 2011
- This paper was accepted for publication in November 2011
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Keywords:
- Ireland;
- memorial spaces;
- royal visit
This commentary reflects on the first official visit made by a British monarch to Ireland since its independence. Focusing on three key moments of Queen Elizabeth's itinerary – the Garden of Remembrance, the Irish National War Memorial, Islandbridge, and the state banquet, Dublin Castle – I suggest that efforts to simultaneously honour rebels/soldiers in acts of public remembrance sought to re-position the past between these two islands in ways which recognised conflict but also aspired towards reconciled understandings of how that past could be more peacefully calibrated.