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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.
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Flight (Paperback)
Oona Frawley
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R250
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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.
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.
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