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
11 From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847–1921 (Marguérite Corporaal / Christopher Cusack / Lindsay Janssen)
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MARGUÉRITE CORPORAAL, CHRISTOPHER CUSACK AND LINDSAY JANSSEN
11 From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847–1921
‘The Emigrant Ship’, an anonymous sketch that was republished in The Literary Garland in November 1850 and that had originally been written for a Protestant orphan bazaar raising funds to aid Irish children who had lost their parents on the transatlantic passage, emphasizes the severe despondency of the emigrants on deck who utter ‘a wailing cry […] so sad and plaintive’ when they ‘take a last look of their native land’.1 Describing the fate of those Irish children who sought to escape imminent starvation and destitution during Ireland’s Great Famine, the story, as a vehicle of transcultural memory, also bears witness to the transportability of recollection from one community to another, and raises questions like: how do recollections change when they are transported to other geographical and cultural spaces – for example through migration? Can we speak of a specific diasporic development of the cultural memories that are connected to the former homeland? Andreas Huyssen has argued in favour of a more thorough examination of ‘the relationship between diasporic memory and the memory formations of the national culture within which a given diaspora may be embedded’.2 More recently, Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad have similary proposed a transnational approach towards investigating ← 233 | 234 → the dynamics of memory, as ‘migrants carry their heritage, memories and traumas with them’ which ‘are transferred and brought into...
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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