Memory Ireland: Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Memory and the Irish Diaspora Introduction O ON A F R AW L E Y 3 1. Imaginary Connections? Postmemory and Irish Diaspora Writing A I DA N A R ROW SM I T H 12 2. Roots and Rhizomes in Irish-Australian Ancestral Memory C H A D H A BE L 24 3. Chronotopic Memory in Contemporary Irish-Canadian Literature K AT R I N U R S C H E L 36 4. Cultural Memory, Identity, and Irish-American Nostalgia JA M E S P. BY R N E 49 5. Race and Irish Cultural Memory M AU R E E N R E DDY 61 6. The Kitsch of the Dispossessed SPU RG E ON T HOM P S ON 75 7. Private Memories, Public Display Jewelry, Souvenirs, and Tattoos as Icons of Irishness M AG G I E W I L L I A M S 88 8. Remembering the Homeland St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations in New Zealand to 1910 TA N JA BU E LT M A N N 101 vi Contents 9. Lancashire Shasana N UA L A N Í DHOM H N A I L L 114 Memory Practices Introduction O ON A F R AW L E Y 129 10. Memory Transfer JOE P L E E R S S E N 137 11. “The Tone of Defiance” Music, Memory, and Irish Nationalism K AT I E BROW N 149 12. “Nonsynchronism,” Traditional Music, and Memory in Ireland S T E V E C OL E M A N 161 13. The Eviction Photograph as Shifting Trace G A I L B A Y L I S 171 14. Reconfiguring the Traveller Self Cultural Memory and Belonging M IC H A E L OH AODH A 185 15. Gaelic Games and the Construction of Memory and Identity S A R A BR A DY 197 16. Food, Immigrants, and the Irish Diaspora H A S I A DI N E R 209 17. Cooking at the Hearth The “Irish Cottage” and Women’s Lived Experience R HON A R IC H M A N K E N N E A L LY 224 18. Getting the Measure of Treasure Island PAU L M U L D O ON 242 Works Cited 251 Index 273 ...