Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture

Melania Terrazas Gallego is on the Executive Board of AEDEI (The Spanish Association for Irish Studies), Head of the Centre of Irish Studies BANNA/BOND (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) and Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of La Rioja (Spain). She is the author of Relational Structures in Wyndham Lewis’s Fiction: Complexity and Value (Lincom Europa, 2005), the editor of Journal of English Studies, vol. 8. (2010) and guest editor of Gender Issues in Contemporary Irish Literature (Estudios Irlandeses, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018). She helped set up the Wyndham Lewis Project websites through grants from the AHRC and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness. She has published extensively on a number of British and Irish modernist and contemporary authors and film directors, and on applied linguistics. Her work has been recognized by positive reviews in international journals, grants and awards received to date.

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• Introduction Melania Terrazas GallegoPart Literature and Film 1. From Undoing: Silence and the Challenge of Individual Trauma in John Boyne’s The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017) Asier Altuna-García de Salazar2. Trauma and Irish Female Migration through Literature and Ethnography María Amor Barros-del Río 3. Avenging the Famine: Lance Daly’s Black ’47, Genre and History Ruth Barton Part II Memory and Digital Archives 4. Reflection of Trauma in the Prisons Memory Archive: How Information Literacy, Human Experience and Place Are Impacted by Conflict Lorraine Dennis5. From the Maze to Social Media: Articulating the Trauma of "the Blanket Protest" in the Digital Space Patrick J. MahoneyPart III History 6. "The Women Who Had Been Straining Every Nerve": Gender-Specific Medical Management of Trauma in the Irish Revolution (1916–1923) Síobhra Aiken 7. Personal Loss and the "Trauma of Internal War": The Cases of W. T. Cosgrave and Seán Lemass Eunan O’Halpin Part IV Music 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 Fintan Vallely 9. Traumatic Childhood Memories and the Adult Political Visions of Sinéad O’Connor, Bono and Phil Lynott David Clare Part V Creative Writing 10. Hungry Ghosts: Trauma and Addiction in Irish Literature Emer Martin 11. Fellow Travellers Pat Boran12. Identity Issues in Pat Boran’s Work: An Interview Melania Terrazas Gallego