Review of Irish Studies in Europe

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2 Review of Irish Studies in Europe Volume 1 Issue 2 Memory and Trauma in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland Editors: Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland

3 ISSN (online): ISSN (print): Editorial Board Prof Shane Alcobia-Murphy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Dr Seán Crosson, NUI Galway, Ireland Dr Hedwig Schwall, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Dr Kevin Bean University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Dr Liam Lillis Ó Laoire, NUI Galway, Ireland Dr Marianna Gula, University of Debrecen, Hungary Advisory Board Prof Alan Ahearne (NUI, Galway) Sylvie Mikowski, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France Dr Loredana Salis, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sardinia Prof Laura Patrícia Zuntini de Izarra, Cidade Universitária São Paulo, Brazil Dr Chiara Sciarrino, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Sicily Prof Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland Prof Mary Daly, University College Dublin, Ireland Prof Lance Pettit, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom Professor John Kerrigan, St. John s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom Bernard O Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford, United Kingdom Rita Duffy, United Kingdom Prof Fran Brearton, Queen s University, Belfast, United Kingdom Dr Elke D hoker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

4 Contents 1.2 i Contributors 1 Introduction: Post-Agreement Northern Irish Culture 12 Richard Kirkland Visualising Peace: Northern Irish Post-conflict Cinema and the Politics of Reconciliation 26 Fabrice Mourlon The Contribution of Victims and Survivors to the Process of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland 40 Karine Bigand The Role of Museums in Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland 54 Emma Grey But It Did Sink, You Understand What I Mean : Topography of the Titanic 64 Stefanie Lehner Absent and yet Somehow Present : Idealized Landscapes and the Counter-historical Impulse in Contemporary Northern Irish Photography and Writing 77 Anthony Roche Memory, Trauma and Forgetting in Northern Irish Drama 92 Megan W. Minogue He s at the Crucial Age : The Performance of Masculinity in Gary Mitchell s Drama 104 Shane Alcobia-Murphy Does Your Heart Ache with the Truth of the Past? : Victims and Trauma in Northern Irish Culture 119 Review Section 128 Call for Papers

5 Contributors Shane Alcobia-Murphy is a Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of three monographs Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland (2005), Sympathetic Ink (2006), Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity (2013) and has edited numerous collections of essays including The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian (2010). Karine Bigand (Aix Marseille Univ, LERMA, Aix-en-Provence, France) is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies in the English Department in Aix-Marseille Université. She holds a PhD in Irish Studies on the representations and political uses of the Irish rising of 1641 from the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Her research deals with the representations and political uses of history in Ireland, the relation between memory and history, and post-conflict Northern Ireland. In 2012, she completed an MA in Cultural Heritage and Museums Studies in the University of Ulster in Belfast. She has since worked in collaboration with the cross-community organisation Healing Through Remembering. Personal academic page: Emma Grey is a doctoral student at the University of Aberdeen and has published articles and books chapters on the works of Willie Doherty, Eoghan McTigue and John Duncan, and she has contributed chapters to the Cross-Currents series on Irish and Scottish Studies. Richard Kirkland is Professor of Irish literature and cultural theory in the English department at King s College London. He has written three monographs: Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of Danger (1996); Identity Parades: Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects (2002); Cathal O Byrne and the Northern Revival in Ireland, (2012). He has co-edited two volumes of essays: Ireland and Cultural Theory (1998) and The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian (2010). He is on the executive council of the British Association of Irish Studies. Stefanie Lehner is a Lecturer in English Literature in Queen s University, Belfast. Her research interests are in contemporary Irish and Scottish writing as well as post-conflict literatures and cultures (especially Northern Ireland and South Africa), specifically in the relationship between politics, ethics and aesthetics. Her work takes inspiration from the fields of postcolonial, gender and trauma studies and political and aesthetic theory, and has been both a comparative and interdisciplinary dimension. She has published numerous articles and books chapters and is the author of the book Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature (2011). Megan W. Minogue completed her doctoral studies at Queen s University, Belfast, and teaches at the Academy of the Holy Cross, Maryland. She has published articles on The Politicization of the Parlour Room in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Studi irlandesi, 2013) and on the Representations of Women in Gary Mitchell s Post-Good Friday Agreement Drama (Women s Studies, 2015).

6 Fabrice Mourlon is a Senior Lecturer at Université Paris 13 where he teaches in the Applied Languages Department. Since he obtained his PhD in 2009, he has published on various aspects of post-conflict Northern Ireland: victims & survivors, dealing with the past and the role of civil society in the peace process. His other research interests include alternative political parties such as the CPI and the anarchist movement. He is currently writing a book on victims & survivors testimonies in Northern Ireland. He is also a member of various academic journals committees, including Etudes Irlandaises, Breac, and Itinéraires. He is currently Secretary of the French Association of Irish Studies (SOFEIR) and a member of the EFACIS Board. Anthony Roche is a Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College, Dublin, and has published widely on Irish drama and theatre from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (2006) and author of Contemporary Irish Drama (2009, 2 nd edition), Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (2011), Synge and the Making of Modern Irish Drama (2013) and The Irish Dramatic Revival, (2015).