ABSTRACT
This book began with a brief description of Queen Elizabeth and Irish President Mary McAleese’s wreath-laying ceremony in the Garden of Remembrance in 2011. This chapter returns to this Garden to examine official efforts to renegotiate a fractious past, divisive national narratives, and how reconciliation and shared spaces are (re)produced through intersecting scales of contemporary Irish society. It also provides insight into changing constructions of statehood, national identity, and memory in Ireland. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of how this urban space is utilized as a platform for the renegotiation of Irish nationalism and the Republic’s geopolitical relationship with the UK.
