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Ireland and Victims

Confronting the Past, Forging the Future

by Lesley Lelourec (Volume editor) Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection XII, 326 Pages
Series: Reimagining Ireland, Volume 45

Summary

Recent years have seen the topic of victims and victimhood brought to the fore on the island of Ireland, both in the North with the publication of the controversial Eames/Bradley report dealing with victims of the Troubles, and in the Republic with the publication of the final Ryan Report on institutional abuse.
In this collection, drawing on the cross-disciplinary nature of Irish studies, contributors from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, politics, sociology and civic society provide multifaceted perspectives from which to examine the issue of victimhood in Ireland. The volume explores in detail how a traumatic past, whether repressed or proclaimed, can continue to impact on the present, both at a personal and societal level.

Details

Pages
XII, 326
Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035303735
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034307925
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0373-5
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (September)
Keywords
institutional abuse history sociology civic society politics
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. XII, 326 pp.

Biographical notes

Lesley Lelourec (Volume editor) Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron (Volume editor)

Lesley Lelourec is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Languages and Irish Studies at the Université Rennes 2, France. She holds a PhD on contemporary English perceptions of the Irish Question. Her main research interest is in Anglo-Irish relations and the impact of the Troubles in Britain. She has published a number of articles on British attitudes towards Northern Ireland and British media representations of the Troubles. Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at the Université Rennes 2, France. She completed a PhD on the Irish in England in the post-Second World War period and their fight for recognition as an ethnic minority group. She has recently started a project on Irish emigrants living on the European continent and is currently researching the Irish diaspora in France.

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