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REIR imagining 79 imagining ire land ire land VOLUME 79 Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research Ruud van den Beuken (eds) from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including IR D YNAM history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new I SH SH and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance S in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in TUD I CS OF OF CS IRISH STUDIES AND THE the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and Emilie Pine, this I collection demonstrates how the examination of Irish cultural legacies THE AND ES DYNAMICS OF MEMORY can illuminate our understanding of processes of identity formation, M heritage policies, canonization, musealization and the transgenerational EMORY and transcultural inflections of the past. Investigating topics such as TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS 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 C van den Beuken (eds) den Beuken van (2010–2015) and she is Director of the NWO-funded International Network orporaal, 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 C usack and usack and 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). ISBN 978-3-0343-2236-2 PETER LANG www.peterlang.com REIR imagining 79 imagining ire land ire land VOLUME 79 M arguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research Ruud van den Beuken (eds) from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including IR D Y history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new I SH SH NAM and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance S in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in TUD I CS OF OF CS IRISH STUDIES AND THE the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and Emilie Pine, this I collection demonstrates how the examination of Irish cultural legacies THE AND ES DYNAMICS OF MEMORY can illuminate our understanding of processes of identity formation, M heritage policies, canonization, musealization and the transgenerational EMORY and transcultural inflections of the past. Investigating topics such as TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS 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 C aal, van den Beuken (eds) den Beuken van (2010–2015) and she is Director of the NWO-funded International Network orpor 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 C usack and 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). PETER LANG www.peterlang.com Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory Reimagining Ireland Volume 79 Edited by Dr Eamon Maher Institute of Technology, Tallaght PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den Beuken (eds) Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory Transitions and Transformations PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • 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. 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Printed in Germany Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den Beuken Introduction: Transitions and Transformations 1 Part I Commemorative Practices 17 Ruud van den Beuken 1 Remembering the Drapier and King Dan: The Sectarian Legacies of Swift and O’Connell in Edward Longford’s Yahoo (1933) and Ascendancy (1935) 19 Tracy Fahey 2 Remembering Wildgoose Lodge: Gothic Stories Recalled and Retold 41 Gail Baylis 3 The Easter Rising 1916: Photography and Remembrance 57 Part II Contested Politics 81 Eve Morrison 4 Hauntings of the Irish Revolution: Veterans and Memory of the Independence Struggle and Civil War 83 vi Eamon Maher 5 Autobiography or Fiction?: Unravelling the Use of Memory in Francis Stuart and John McGahern 111 Sara Dybris McQuaid 6 Notes on Studying Public Policies of Memory: The Parades Commission in Northern Ireland and the Institutionalization of Memory Practices 129 Stephen Hopkins 7 The rishI Republican Movement and the Contested Past: ‘Official Memory’ and the Politics of Dissent 149 Part III Memory and Trauma 169 Niamh NicGhabhann 8 Memory, Public Space and the Body in Ireland: Locating and Negotiating the Asylum in Edna O’Brien’s Short Fiction 171 Emilie Pine 9 The Witness and the Audience: Mary Raftery’s No Escape (2010) 189 Nelson Barre 10 Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: Ballyturk and The Walworth Farce as Memorial (Re)Inscription 209 Part IV Theoretical Developments 231 Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen 11 From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847–1921 233 vii Graham Dawson 12 Memory, ‘Post-Conflict’ Temporalities and the Afterlife of Emotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles 257 Guy Beiner 13 Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering 297 Notes on Contributors 323 Index 329 Figures Figure 1: ‘Working’ glass plate for the repositioning of Tom Clarke’s portrait. Keogh Brothers. Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. 62 Figure 2: ‘Irish Rebellion, May 1916’ postcard of Tom Clarke, 1916. Powell Press. Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. 63 Figure 3: ‘Working’ glass plate for Cornelius Colbert. Keogh Brothers. Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. 64 Figure 4: Joseph Mary Plunkett. The hybrid image shifts rela- tions of mediation. Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. 73 Acknowledgements This volume is a product of theIrish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations conference, which was held at Radboud University, Nijmegen, between 31 March and 2 April 2015, as part of the ERC-funded research project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921 (grant agreement no. 262898-FAMINE). Most of the chapters in this volume were first presented as papers at this conference. We would like to acknowledge the generous financial support offered by several partners, which was vital for the realization of the conference and this volume: the European Research Council, the Embassy of Ireland in the Netherlands, Radboud University’s Department of English and the university’s Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies. We would like to thank all contributors to this volume for their stimulating scholarship. We are grateful to Jeanne Lenders for assisting us in editing the chapters. Finally, we would like to express sincere thanks to Eamon Maher, series editor for the Reimagining Ireland series, and Christabel Scaife, our editor at Peter Lang, for their support of this pub- lication, their excellent guidance throughout its development and the pleasant collaboration. Marguérite Corporaal Christopher