Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

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 ofEmotion in Conflict Transformation after the Irish Troubles – Guy Beiner: Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering