ABSTRACT
Ireland is engaged with a decade of centenaries. Commemorations are being held to mark a series of events that took place between the years 1912 and 1922. They begin with Unionists signing a politico-religious Ulster Covenant as an act of resistance to the British government’s Bill to give a Home Rule Parliament to Ireland. Processing the complex and contextual historic events of 1912 to 1922 required a methodology that was educational, interactive, exploratory, and, above all, ethical. Ireland may not be alone in having a surplus of memory, or more memory than it can deal with. History is contested. There is no one agreed narrative of Irish history, but rather Irish histories are contested and complex. Ethical remembering acknowledges the destructiveness of violence and its destructive and debilitating legacy. Centuries of religious and political sectarianism have ensured that Irish people are strangers to each other, even antagonistic strangers.
