Memory Ireland: Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory: The Famine and the Troubles O ON A F R AW L E Y 1 The Famine and Memory 1. The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger DAV I D L L OY D 17 2. The Starvation of a Man: Terence MacSwiney and Famine Memory JO S E PH L E N NON 59 3. Commemorating the Great Irish Famine: 1840s–1990s M A RG A R ET K E L L E H E R 91 4. Photography and the Visual Legacy of Famine E M I LY M A R K-F I T Z G E R A L D 121 5. Memory in Irish Culture: An Exploration R IC H A R D K E A R N E Y 138 6. Narrating Sites of History: Workhouses and Famine Memory N I A M H A N N K E L LY 152 vi Contents 7. Ethnostalgia: Irish Hunger and Traumatic Memory JO S E PH VA L E N T E 174 Northern Ireland and Memory 8. Life-Stories, Survivor Memory, and Trauma in the Irish Troubles: The Case of Bloody Sunday G R A H A M DAW S ON 195 9. Vestiges: Poems as Afterlives, A Reading G E R A L D DAW E 215 10. At Vision’s Edge: Post-Conflict Memory and Art Practice in Northern Ireland F ION N A B A R BE R 232 11. The Language of Memory: Translation, Transgression, Transcendence E L M E R K E N N E DY-A N DR E W S 247 12. The Irreversible and the Irrevocable: Encircling Trauma in Contemporary Northern Irish Literature S T E FA N I E L E H N E R 272 13. Forget 1690, Remember the Somme: Ulster Loyalist Battles in the Twenty-first Century D OM I N IC BR Y A N 293 14. Noncombatants and Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland K R I S BROW N 310 Works Cited 327 Contributors 355 Index 361 ...