Name Guy Beiner | Education Tel Aviv University | |
Books Remembering the year of the French, In Humbert's Footsteps: Mayo 1798 | ||
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Guy Beiner (born 1968) is a historian of the late-modern period. He is a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel.
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Life and works
Guy Beiner is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland. He was a Government of Ireland Scholar at University College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies in the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary Fellow at the Central European University in Budapest, a Gerta Henkel Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of History of the University of Oxford, and a research associate of St Catherine's College, Oxford.His research focuses on remembrance and forgetting in modern history, with a particular interest in modern Ireland. He has also published on other subjects, including oral history, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, and the history of terrorism. In recent years his work has primarily focused on "social forgetting".
His book Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2007; paperback 2009) won several international awards, including the Ratcliff Prize 2007 for "an important contribution by an individual to the study of Folklore or Folk Life in Great Britain and Ireland"; the Wayland D. Hand Prize 2008 for an outstanding publication in history and folklore; the National Council on Public History [NCPH] Book Award 2008 finalist, commended for "outstanding contribution in the subfield of public history and policy"; Cundill International Prize 2008 longlist for a book determined to have a profound literary, social and academic impact in the area of history.