Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory
Transitions and Transformations
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Edited By Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den Beuken
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. XII, 348 pp., 4 b/w ill.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Transitions and Transformations (Marguérite Corporaal / Christopher Cusack / Ruud Van Den Beuken)
- Irish Memory Studies: Trends and Topics
- Future Directions
- The Outline of this Volume
- Bibliography
- Part I: Commemorative Practices
- 1 Remembering the Drapier and King Dan: The Sectarian Legacies of Swift and O’Connell in Edward Longford’s Yahoo (1933) and Ascendancy (1935) (Ruud Van Den Beuken)
- ‘Leave the Dean in the obscurity he deserves’: Jonathan Swift Contested in Yahoo (1933)
- ‘My blessing on the pistol and the powder and the ball!’: Daniel O’Connell and Political Violence in Ascendancy (1935)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 2 Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold (Tracy Fahey)
- Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: The Project
- Project Origins: Discovering the Variants
- Conducting the Research: Fieldwork as Homework
- Analysis of the Variants: The Curses
- Analysis of the Variants: The Ghost of Biddy Richards
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 3 The Easter Rising 1916: Photography and Remembrance (Gail Baylis)
- Production
- Display
- Uses
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part II: Contested Politics
- 4 Hauntings of the Irish Revolution: Veterans and Memory of the Independence Struggle and Civil War (Eve Morrison)
- Survival of the Supernatural
- Veterans’ Accounts and Popular Memory
- Patrick Boland and Michael Coen
- Guests of the Nation
- Bridget Noble
- Bibliography
- 5 Autobiography or Fiction?: Unravelling the Use of Memory in Francis Stuart and John McGahern (Eamon Maher)
- Bibliography
- 6 Notes on Studying Public Policies of Memory: The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland and the Institutionalization of Memory Practices (Sara Dybris McQuaid)
- Policy Studies and Memory Studies
- The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland as a Case in Point
- Determining the Past and the Present
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 7 The Irish Republican Movement and the Contested Past: ‘Official Memory’ and the Politics of Dissent (Stephen Hopkins)
- Collective Memory and the Irish Republican Past
- The ‘Leading Group’ and Republican Organizational Culture
- Orthodoxy, Dissent and Control of the Past
- Constructing and Challenging Republican ‘Official Memory’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part III: Memory and Trauma
- 8 Memory, Public Space and the Body in Ireland: Locating and Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction (Niamh NicGhabhann)
- Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction
- Public Space, Morality and the Female Body
- Bibliography
- 9 The Witness and the Audience: Mary Raftery’s No Escape (2010) (Emilie Pine)
- Mediating the Report
- Status of the Witness
- Collective Witnessing
- Bibliography
- 10 Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription (Nelson Barre)
- ‘Remember nothing! Say the line!’
- ‘You’ll learn to forget – we did before’
- Performance and the Creation of a World
- Bibliography
- Part IV: Theoretical Developments
- 11 From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847–1921 (Marguérite Corporaal / Christopher Cusack / Lindsay Janssen)
- Displacing the Famine
- Relocating Ireland
- The Famine Past as a Tool of Social Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 12 Memory, ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles (Graham Dawson)
- Regimes of Temporality and the Politics of Time in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland
- ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities of Emotion in the Northern Ireland Troubles
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- 13 Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering (Guy Beiner)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series index
2 Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold (Tracy Fahey)
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TRACY FAHEY
2 Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold
The 1816 burning of Wildgoose Lodge in Reaghstown, Co. Louth is a well-known yet complex atrocity story of Irish agrarian conflict. This traumatic incident, which triggered a wave of murder, retaliation, informing and executions, is well documented by a fairly contemporaneous account by James Anton of 1846; later journal articles by Paterson and Casey; a newspaper feature by Kiely and historical monographs on the subject by Murray and Dooley.1 The shocking nature of the burning and its aftermath resonated powerfully in nineteenth-century Reaghstown. Between 1816 and 1819, eight people were burned alive in the conflagration in the Lodge: Edward Lynch, his daughter Bridget, her husband Thomas Rooney, their five-month-old son Peter, and three young servants, Biddy Richards, James Rispin and Ann Cassidy. Eighteen men were executed, of whom twelve were gibbeted in roadside trees in the locality until 1819; and several alleged informers were subsequently murdered in the neighbourhood. This event and its repercussions are famously retold by William Carleton in his short ← 41 | 42 → story of 1830, ‘Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman’, later retitled and republished in 1933 as ‘Wildgoose Lodge’.2
The story of Wildgoose Lodge occupies a paradoxical position in terms of national and local memory. It is a story that looms large in regional cultural memory through stories told in family homes, yet these stories are not shared publicly. Although the story is nationally known, principally through...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Transitions and Transformations (Marguérite Corporaal / Christopher Cusack / Ruud Van Den Beuken)
- Irish Memory Studies: Trends and Topics
- Future Directions
- The Outline of this Volume
- Bibliography
- Part I: Commemorative Practices
- 1 Remembering the Drapier and King Dan: The Sectarian Legacies of Swift and O’Connell in Edward Longford’s Yahoo (1933) and Ascendancy (1935) (Ruud Van Den Beuken)
- ‘Leave the Dean in the obscurity he deserves’: Jonathan Swift Contested in Yahoo (1933)
- ‘My blessing on the pistol and the powder and the ball!’: Daniel O’Connell and Political Violence in Ascendancy (1935)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 2 Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold (Tracy Fahey)
- Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: The Project
- Project Origins: Discovering the Variants
- Conducting the Research: Fieldwork as Homework
- Analysis of the Variants: The Curses
- Analysis of the Variants: The Ghost of Biddy Richards
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 3 The Easter Rising 1916: Photography and Remembrance (Gail Baylis)
- Production
- Display
- Uses
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part II: Contested Politics
- 4 Hauntings of the Irish Revolution: Veterans and Memory of the Independence Struggle and Civil War (Eve Morrison)
- Survival of the Supernatural
- Veterans’ Accounts and Popular Memory
- Patrick Boland and Michael Coen
- Guests of the Nation
- Bridget Noble
- Bibliography
- 5 Autobiography or Fiction?: Unravelling the Use of Memory in Francis Stuart and John McGahern (Eamon Maher)
- Bibliography
- 6 Notes on Studying Public Policies of Memory: The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland and the Institutionalization of Memory Practices (Sara Dybris McQuaid)
- Policy Studies and Memory Studies
- The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland as a Case in Point
- Determining the Past and the Present
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 7 The Irish Republican Movement and the Contested Past: ‘Official Memory’ and the Politics of Dissent (Stephen Hopkins)
- Collective Memory and the Irish Republican Past
- The ‘Leading Group’ and Republican Organizational Culture
- Orthodoxy, Dissent and Control of the Past
- Constructing and Challenging Republican ‘Official Memory’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part III: Memory and Trauma
- 8 Memory, Public Space and the Body in Ireland: Locating and Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction (Niamh NicGhabhann)
- Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction
- Public Space, Morality and the Female Body
- Bibliography
- 9 The Witness and the Audience: Mary Raftery’s No Escape (2010) (Emilie Pine)
- Mediating the Report
- Status of the Witness
- Collective Witnessing
- Bibliography
- 10 Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription (Nelson Barre)
- ‘Remember nothing! Say the line!’
- ‘You’ll learn to forget – we did before’
- Performance and the Creation of a World
- Bibliography
- Part IV: Theoretical Developments
- 11 From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847–1921 (Marguérite Corporaal / Christopher Cusack / Lindsay Janssen)
- Displacing the Famine
- Relocating Ireland
- The Famine Past as a Tool of Social Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 12 Memory, ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles (Graham Dawson)
- Regimes of Temporality and the Politics of Time in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland
- ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities of Emotion in the Northern Ireland Troubles
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- 13 Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering (Guy Beiner)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series index