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
12 Memory, ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles (Graham Dawson)
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GRAHAM DAWSON
12 Memory, ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles
It is simply too soon to ask Northern Ireland to set about an official and systematic exploration of the history of the Troubles. Even now […] the wounds are still too sore, the divisions too deep and the past too hotly contested. Just talking about how Northern Ireland might deal with the conflict’s legacy generated scenes of anger and bitterness of a type many dared to hope were themselves in the past.1
[T]here comes a time when we should accept that no matter how many more investigations we hold, or how many witnesses we call, or how much money we spend, they are unlikely to achieve anything more of use. That time has come. For Northern Ireland, the path to lasting peace lies in looking to the future, not raking up the past.2
These two statements, both contributions to debates in the Northern Ireland peace process about how to ‘deal with the legacies’ of past conflict during the Troubles, were made within five years of each other, in 2009 and 2013 respectively. Read together, they give rise to two questions that will be addressed in this chapter. Firstly, they invite consideration of how conflicting understandings, evaluations and activations of temporality play out in ‘post-conflict’ culture and complicate efforts towards ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland. Secondly, they prompt reflection on...
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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