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  • Chapter 15 - “He Who Tramples on the Past Does Not Create for the Future”

  • from Part IV - Revivalist Futures
  • Edited by Gregory Castle, Arizona State University
  • Book:
    The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025, pp 303-322

  • Summary

    In her chapter, Elizabeth Crooke examines the work of nineteenth-century antiquarian scholar George Petrie and the poet and archivist Samuel Ferguson, who were vital to the formation of a modern revivalist movement. The accumulation of knowledge about the Irish past is a condition of freedom, for it stands as a bulwark against false and degrading historical representations and frees Irish institutions to use the recovery of cultural artifacts to support the process of national Bildung. Museums connect the past, through present cultural activity, to the realization of Ireland’s national future. This connection motivates the early designers of museums and other cultural institutions charged with preserving cultural artifacts to regard authenticity as a quality of cultural objects, an aura that transcends historical conditions. During the Decade of Centenaries (2012–2022), Petrie and Ferguson became themselves a part of Ireland’s future in the form of commemorations, the visible signs of institutional memory.