%0 Journal Article
%T How is Ulster¡¯s History Represented in Northern Ireland¡¯s Museums? The Cases of the Ulster Folk Museum and the Ulster Museum
%A Karine BIGAND
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.1769
%X Les liens sensibles entre m¨¦moire et politique en Irlande du Nord ont influenc¨¦ la fa on dont les mus¨¦es ont repr¨¦sent¨¦ l¡¯histoire, en particulier l¡¯histoire r¨¦cente et la p¨¦riode dite des   Troubles  . Ceci est particuli¨¨rement vrai dans les mus¨¦es nationaux, dont l¡¯embarras, voire les strat¨¦gies d¡¯¨¦vitement, face ¨¤ la repr¨¦sentation de l¡¯histoire sont notables. Cet article porte sur les repr¨¦sentations de l¡¯histoire de l¡¯Ulster ¨¤ l¡¯Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, situ¨¦ ¨¤ Cultra, et ¨¤ l¡¯Ulster Museum, situ¨¦ ¨¤ Belfast. Il analyse les raisons id¨¦ologiques de l¡¯¨¦volution de la pr¨¦sentation de l¡¯histoire dans ces mus¨¦es et pose la question du mus¨¦e en tant que m¨¦diateur entre les communaut¨¦s de la soci¨¦t¨¦ nord-irlandaise, post-conflit mais toujours divis¨¦e. The ongoing over-sensitive relation between memory and politics in Northern Ireland has had an impact on the representation of history in museums, in particular the representation of the recent past and the ¡°Troubles¡±. This is particularly true of the state museums that have been noted for, at best, their general embarrassment in the representation of history, at worst, their avoidance of it. This paper focuses on the representation of Ulster¡¯s history in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra and in the Ulster Museum in Belfast. It addresses the ideological outlook behind the fluctuating presentations of history and reflects on the role of museums as mediator between communities in a post-conflict, yet still divided Northern Irish society.
%K museums
%K representation of history
%K Northern Ireland
%K mus¨¦es
%K repr¨¦sentations de l¡¯histoire
%K Irlande du Nord
%U http://erea.revues.org/1769