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re re REIR imagining imagining 94 i land i land VOLUME 94 CT melania Terrazas Gallego (ed) The last two centuries have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society. or na Through constructing cultural trauma, Irish society can recognize human pain and Tu its source/s and become receptive to the idea of taking significant and responsible em measures to remedy it. The intention of this volume is to show the mediating role of ma Trauma and IdenTITy In p the literature and film scholar, the archivist, the social media professional, the historian, a o n ConTemporary IrIsh CulTure the musician, the artist and the poet in identifying Irish cultural trauma past and r d present, in illuminating Irish national identity (which is shifting so much today), in a rI paying tribute to the memory and suffering of others, in showing how to do things yd with words and, thus, how concrete action might be taken. Iren IT Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture makes a case for the value of trauma sI hT and memory studies as a means of casting new light on the meaning of Irish identity in a y number of contemporary Irish cultural practices, and of illuminating present-day attitudes Cu In to the past. The critical approaches herein are of a very interdisciplinary nature, since they l T combine aspects of sociology, philosophy and anthropology, among other fields. This u collection is intended to lead readers to reconsider the connections between trauma, Irish r cultural memory, identity, famine, diaspora, gender, history, revolution, the Troubles, digital e media, literature, film, music and art. M e Melania Terrazas Gallego is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for l a Irish Studies), Head of the Centre of Irish Studies BANNA/BOND (European Federation of n Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) and Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the ia University of La Rioja (Spain). She is the author of Relational Structures in Wyndham Lewis’s T e Fiction: Complexity and Value (Lincom Europa, 2005), the editor of Journal of English Studies, r r vol. 8. (2010) and guest editor of Gender Issues in Contemporary Irish Literature (Estudios a z Irlandeses, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018). She helped set up the Wyndham Lewis Project websites a through grants from the AHRC and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness. s G She has published extensively on a number of British and Irish modernist and contemporary a authors and film directors, and on applied linguistics. Her work has been recognized by ll e positive reviews in international journals, grants and awards received to date. g o ( e d ) ISBN 978-1-78997-557-4 PETER LANG www.peterlang.com 9781789975574_cvr_eu.indd 1 30-Dec-19 15:10:40 'Reading the eye-opening essays in this collection, one is struck by the many different ways through which recollections of troubling experiences have been creatively reconfigured as traumas that pervade Irish literature, cinema, music, historical writing and digital media. The extent of this unsettling realisation is revelatory' Guy Beiner, author of Forgetful Remembrance and Remembering the Year of the French 'This volume proposes essential insights into how trauma and memory studies cast light on Irish identities, both historically and in the present moment. It effectively and ethically considers the role of gender and cultural production in terms of investigating traumatic experience in postcolonial and postmodern contexts. Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture is a rich and timely addition to the interdisciplinary fields of Irish studies, cultural studies and trauma studies' Dr Miriam Haughton, NUI Galway, author of Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow (2018) Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture Reimagining Ireland Volume 94 Edited by Dr Eamon Maher, Technological University Dublin – Tallaght Campus PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Melania Terrazas Gallego (ed) Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data : A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. ISSN: 1662-9094 ISBN 978-1-78997-557-4 (print) • eISBN 978-1-78997-558-1 (ePDF) eISBN 978-1-78997-559-8 (ePub) • eISBN 978-1-78997-560-4 (Mobi) Cover image: ‘Crossing Borders’ by Emer Martin. Cover design by Peter Lang Ltd. © Peter Lang AG 2020 Published by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 52 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU, United Kingdom [email protected], www.peterlang.com Patrick Speight has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this Work. All rights reserved. All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. Contents List of Figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Melania Terrazas Introduction 1 part i Literature and Film Asier Altuna-García de Salazar 1 From Undoing: Silence and the Challenge of Individual Trauma in John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017) 15 María Amor Barros-del Río 2 Trauma and Irish Female Migration through Literature and Ethnography 37 Ruth Barton 3 Avenging the Famine: Lance Daly’s Black ’47, Genre and History 59 Part II Memory and Digital Archives Lorraine Dennis 4 Reflection of Trauma in the Prisons Memory Archive: How Information Literacy, Human Experience and Place Are Impacted by Conflict 81 vi Contents Patrick J. Mahoney 5 From the Maze to Social Media: Articulating the Trauma of “the Blanket Protest” in the Digital Space 103 Part III History Síobhra Aiken 6 “The Women Who Had Been Straining Every Nerve”: Gender-Specific Medical Management of Trauma in the Irish Revolution (1916–1923) 133 Eunan O’Halpin 7 Personal Loss and the “Trauma of Internal War”: The Cases of W. T. Cosgrave and Seán Lemass 159 Part IV Music Fintan Vallely 8 Di-rum-ditherum-dan-dee: Trauma and Prejudice, Conflict and Change as Reflections of Societal Transformation in the Modern-Day Consolidation of Irish Traditional Music 185 David Clare 9 Traumatic Childhood Memories and the Adult Political Visions of Sinéad O’Connor, Bono and Phil Lynott 211 Part V Creative Writing Emer Martin 10 Hungry Ghosts: Trauma and Addiction in Irish Literature 245 Pat Boran 11 Fellow Travellers 265 Contents vii Melania Terrazas 12 Trauma and Identity Issues in Pat Boran’s Work: An Interview 267 Notes on Contributors 291 Index 297
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