Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and Emilie Pine, this collection demonstrates how the examination of Irish cultural legacies can illuminate our understanding of processes of identity formation, heritage policies, canonization, musealization and the transgenerational and transcultural inflections of the past. Investigating topics such as trauma, contested politics and commemorative practices, and exploring recent theoretical developments, the volume offers an interdisciplinary overview of the recent cross-fertilization between memory studies and Irish studies.

Marguérite Corporaal is Associate Professor in English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She was Principal Investigator for the ERC-funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921 (2010-2015) and she is Director of the NWO-funded International Network of Irish Famine Studies (2014-2017). Christopher Cusack is a PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen and lectures at HAN University of Applied Sciences. He co-edited Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology (2012) and Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine (2014). Ruud van den Beuken is a lecturer at the University of Groningen and Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2015, he was awarded the Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) New Scholars' Prize. He co-edited Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine (2014).

CONTENTS: Marguérite Corporaal/Christopher Cusack/Ruud van den Beuken: Introduction: Transitions and Transformations - Part I: Commemorative Practices - Ruud van den Beuken: Remembering the Drapier and King Dan: The Sectarian Legacies of Swift and O'Connell in Edward Longford's Yahoo (1933) and Ascendancy (1935) - Tracy Fahey: Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold - Gail Baylis: The Easter Rising 1916: Photography and Remembrance - Part II: Contested Politics - Eve Morrison: Hauntings of the Irish Revolution: Veterans and Memory of the Independence Struggle and Civil War - Eamon Maher: Autobiography or Fiction?: Unravelling the Use of Memory in Francis Stuart and John McGahern - Sara Dybris McQuaid: Notes on Studying Public Policies of Memory: The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland and the Institutionalization of Memory Practices - Stephen Hopkins: The Irish Republican Movement and the Contested Past: «Official Memory» and the Politics of Dissent - Part III: Memory and Trauma - Niamh NicGhabhann: Memory, Public Space and the Body in Ireland: Locating and Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O'Brien's Short Fiction - Emilie Pine: The Witness and the Audience: Mary Raftery's No Escape (2010) - Nelson Barre: Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription - Part IV: Theoretical Developments - Marguérite Corporaal/Christopher Cusack/Lindsay Janssen: From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847-1921 - Graham Dawson: Memory, «Post-Conflict» Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles - Guy Beiner: Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering