Memory Ireland. Volume 2, Diaspora and memory practices

Memory Ireland. Volume 2, Diaspora and memory practices / edited by Oona Frawley.

In the second volume of a series that will ultimately include four, the authors consider Irish diasporic memory and memory practices. While the Irish diaspora has become the subject of a wide range of scholarship, there has been little work focused on its relationship to memory. The first half of th...

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Other Authors: Frawley, Oona
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University, 2012.
Edition:First edition
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Memory > Social aspects > Ireland.
Collective memory > Ireland.
Ireland > Civilization.
Ireland > Historiography.
Ireland > Social conditions.
Ireland > Study and teaching (Higher)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Oona Frawley
  • 1. Imaginary connections? Postmemory and Irish diaspora writing / Aidan Arrowsmith
  • 2. Roots and rhizomes in Irish-Australian ancestral memory / Chad Habel
  • 3. Chronotopic memory in contemporary Irish-Canadian literature / Katrin Urschel
  • 4. Cultural memory, identity, and Irish-American nostalgia / James P. Byrne
  • 5. Race and Irish cultural memory / Maureen Reddy
  • 6. The kitsch of the dispossessed / Spurgeon Thompson
  • 7. Private memories, public display : jewelry, souvenirs, and tattoos as icons of Irishness / Maggie Williams
  • 8. Remembering the homeland : St. Patrick's Day celebrations in New Zealand to 1910 / Tanja Bueltmann
  • 9. Lancashire shasana / Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Memory practices
  • Introduction / Oona Frawley
  • 10. Memory transfer / Joep Leerssen
  • 11. "The tone of defiance" : music, memory, and Irish nationalism / Katie Brown
  • 12. "Nonsynchronism, " traditional music, and memory in Ireland / Steve Coleman
  • 13. The eviction photograph as shifting trace / Gail Baylis
  • 14. Reconfiguring the traveller self : cultural memory and belonging / Michael Ohaodha
  • 15. Gaelic games and the construction of memory and identity / Sara Brady
  • 16. Food, immigrants, and the Irish diaspora / Hasia Diner
  • 17. Cooking at the hearth : the "Irish Cottage" and women's lived experience / Rhona Richman Kenneally
  • 18. Getting the measure of Treasure Island / Paul Muldoon
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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