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When women are erased from history, what are we left with? Between
1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political
change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil
War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the
Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In
preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish
government formed a group of experts to oversee the ways in which
the country would remember this monumental time. Unfortunately, the
group was formed with no attempt at gender balance. Women and the
Decade of Commemorations, edited by Oona Frawley, highlights not
only the responsibilities of Irish women, past and present, but it
also privileges women's scholarship in an attempt to redress what
has been a long-standing imbalance. For example, contributors note
the role of the Waking the Feminists movement, which was ignited
when, in 2016, the Abbey Theater released its male-dominated
centenary program. They also discuss the importance of addressing
missing history and curating memory to correct the historical
record when it comes to remembering revolution. Together, the
essays in Women and the Decade of Commemorations consider the
impact of women's unseen, unsung work, which has been critically
important in shaping Ireland, a country that continues to struggle
with honoring the full role of women today.
When women are erased from history, what are we left with? Between
1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political
change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil
War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the
Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In
preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish
government formed a group of experts to oversee the ways in which
the country would remember this monumental time. Unfortunately, the
group was formed with no attempt at gender balance. Women and the
Decade of Commemorations, edited by Oona Frawley, highlights not
only the responsibilities of Irish women, past and present, but it
also privileges women's scholarship in an attempt to redress what
has been a long-standing imbalance. For example, contributors note
the role of the Waking the Feminists movement, which was ignited
when, in 2016, the Abbey Theater released its male-dominated
centenary program. They also discuss the importance of addressing
missing history and curating memory to correct the historical
record when it comes to remembering revolution. Together, the
essays in Women and the Decade of Commemorations consider the
impact of women's unseen, unsung work, which has been critically
important in shaping Ireland, a country that continues to struggle
with honoring the full role of women today.
Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term ""memory""
in re cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural
memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape
beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural memory has
garnered particular atten tion within Irish studies. With its
trauma-filled history and sizable global diaspora, Ireland presents
an ideal subject for work in this vein. What do stereotypes of
Irish memory-as extensive, unforgiving, begrudging, but also blank
on particular, usually traumatic, subjects-reveal about the ways in
which cultural remembrance works in contemporary Irish culture and
in Irish diasporic culture? How do icons of Irishness-from the harp
to the cottage, from the Celtic cross to a figure like James
Joyce-function in cultural memory? This collection seeks to address
these questions as it maps a landscape of cultural memory in
Ireland through theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural
explorations by top scholars in the field of Irish studies. In a
series that will ultimately include four volumes, the sixteen es
says in this first volume explore remembrance and forgetting
throughout history, from early modern Ireland to contemporary
multicultural Ireland. Among the many subjects address, Guy Beiner
disentangles ""collective"" from ""folk"" memory in ""Remembering
and Forgetting the Irish Rebellion of 1798,"" and Anne Dolan looks
at local memory of the Civil war in ""Embodying the Memory of War
and Civil War."" The volume concludes with Alan Titley's ""The
Great Forgetting,"" a compelling argu ment for viewing modern Irish
culture as an artifact of the Europeaniza tion of Ireland and for
bringing into focus the urgent need for further, wide-ranging
Irish-language scholarship.
Cultural memory has in recent years been taken up with enthusiasm
across the domain of area studies and the humanities generally.
Ireland, with its trauma-filled history and huge global diaspora,
presents an ideal subject for work in this vein. This series as a
whole seeks to construct a landscape of cultural memory in Ireland,
focusing in particular on how cognitive capacity for memory might
influence the formation of cultural memory and how that cultural
memory shifts over time. Volume 3 focuses on the impact of the
Famine and the Troubles on the formation and study of Irish
cultural memory. Topics considered include hunger strikes,
monuments to the Famine, trauma and the politics of memory in the
Irish peace process, and Ulster Loyalist battles in the
twenty-first century. Gathering the work of leading scholars such
as Margaret Kelleher, Joseph Lennon, David Lloyd, Joseph Valente,
and Gerald Dawe, this collection is an essential contribution to
the field of Irish studies.
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Flight (Paperback)
Oona Frawley
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Flight is the story of four travellers as their journeys intersect
one winter in Dublin. Sandrine, a Zimbabwean woman who has left her
husband and son behind in the hope of making a better life for them
in Ireland, is alone and secretly pregnant. She finds herself
working as a carer for Tom and Clare, a couple whose travels are
ending as their minds being to fail. Meanwhile Elizabeth, their
world-weary daughter, carries the weight of her own body's secret.
Set in Ireland in 2004 as a referendum on citizenship approaches,
Flight is a magically observed story of family and belonging,
following the gestation of a friendship during a year of crisis.
Flight is among a new breed of Irish novel, one that recognises the
global nature of Irish experience in the late 20th century, and one
that considers Ireland in the aftermath of the failed Celtic Tiger.
In the second volume of a series that will ultimately include four,
the authors consider Irish diasporic memory and memory practices.
While the Irish diaspora has become the subject of a wide range of
scholarship, there has been little work focused on its relationship
to memory. The first half of the volume asks how diasporic memory
functions in different places and times, and what forms it takes
on. As an island nation with a history of emigration, Ireland has
developed a rich diasporic cultural memory, one that draws on
multiple traditions and historiographies of both "home" and "away."
Native traditions are not imported wholesale, but instead develop
their own curious hybridity, reflecting the nature of emigrant
memory that absorbs new ways of thinking about home. How do
immigrants remember their homeland? How do descendants of
immigrants "remember" a land they rarely visit? How does diasporic
memory pass through families, and how is it represented in cultural
forms such as literature, festivals, and souvenirs? In its second
half, this volume shifts its attention to the concept of "memory
practices," ways of cultural remembering that result from and are
shaped by particular cultural forms. Many of these cultural forms
embody memory materially through language, music, and photography
and, because of their distinctive expressions of culture, give rise
to distinctive memory practices. Gathering the leading voices in
Irish studies, this volume opens new pathways into the body of
Irish cultural memory, demonstrating time and again the ways in
which memory is supported by the negotiations of individuals within
wider cultural contexts.
The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish
culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research
has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the
relationship of the Famine and related experiences (hunger,
migration, eviction, poverty, institutions and social memory) to
visual and material cultures. This book aims to explore how the
material and visual cultures of Ireland and its diaspora (including
painting, engraving, photography, devotional objects, ritual,
drama, film, television, and graphic novels) intersect with the
multiple impacts and experiences of the Famine. In tracing the
Famine's impact in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and across the
diaspora over almost two centuries, it adopts transgenerational as
well as transnational approaches to the subject of cultural memory.
Interest in the Famine has increased rather than declined since its
sesquicentenary, acquiring new relevance in the wake of Ireland's
recent economic collapse and the international contemporary refugee
crisis, with which frequent parallels have been drawn. This book
arrives in the midst of the Decade of Centenaries, the sequence of
key commemorations in Ireland and Northern Ireland that has
attracted widespread international public attention. As such, its
essays resonate with current developments in Irish cultural
history, commemoration and memory, and advances new approaches to
studies of memory and materiality.
In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series,
Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of
cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined. An
exemplary author to consider in relation to questions of how it is
that history is remembered and recycled, Joyce creates characters
that confront particularly the fraught relationship between the
individual and the historical past; the crisis of colonial history
in relation to the colonized state; and the relationship between
the individual's memory of his or her own past and the past of the
broader culture. The collection includes leading Joyce scholars
including Luke Gibbons, Vincent Cheng, and Declan Kiberd and
considers such topics as Jewish memory in Ulysses, history and
memory in Finnegans Wake, and Joyce and the Bible.
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