In 1898, a year when statues commemorating the rebellion of the United Irishmen were being erected all over Ireland, the monument to Betsy Gray in Ballynahinch, county Down – the only statue of the 1798 centennial dedicated to a woman – was violently destroyed. In April 2014, Dr Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) visited UCD to give a lecture – Intra-Community Remembering and Forgetting: Commemorative Possessiveness and Envy in Ulster – as part of the Irish Memory Studies Network’s lecture series on Memory and Community.