Book Review: Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory Guy Beiner Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 488 pp. US$49.95. ISBN 9780299218201

Abstract

certain distortion in the linear trajectory of time, where we are unable or unwilling to march in the direction of modernity's promised progress. Olick of course goes much further than this, and the reader willing to work with his complex theorizing will be deeply rewarded. Given that Olick presents this part of his theorizing as schematic and tentative, one can (at risk of falling back on an outmoded chronotype!) look forward with eager anticipation to the next moment of his thinking memory.