The Politics of Irish Memory

The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry

“…As Pine observes in The Politics of Irish Memory, 'Over the last 30 years, Irish remembrance culture has opened up our recent history'; consequently '[w]e are not who we thought we were, or put another way, we remember ourselves differently now'. 48 Discourses of history and identity that were once fixed are now subject xx INTRODUCTION to scrutiny and deconstruction from a variety of positions, as explored by Guy Beiner, Emilie Pine and Frawley, amongst others. 49 As 'the interplay of present and past in socio-cultural contexts', cultural memory studies underpins the theoretical approach undertaken here.…”

Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists

“…This article considers the (still-emerging) body of academic work which has been produced in response to this history and the state responses to survivors’ claims for justice. Although scholars across the social sciences and humanities have engaged productively with Ireland’s history of institutional abuse (see, e.g., Fischer, 2016; Garrett, 2000; Gleeson, 2017; Inglis, 1998; Lowry, 2022; O’Donnell et al, 2022; Pine, 2011), traces of the Irish case are only lightly to be found in criminological inquiry. Perhaps this is no surprise given criminology’s history of ignoring studies which have women as their focus (Daly & Chesney-Lind, 1988; Cook, 2016).…”

Historical duty, palimpsestic time and migration in the Decade of Centenaries

“…10 The goal of historical duty as an affective (something that must be felt) and practical (something that must be implemented) Irish capability might be summarized by Emilie Pine's definition of "ethical memory" as "a form of justice that recognizes the political nature of remembering and forgetting." 11 Crucially, it needs bodies to be animated as a formation. As Rebecca Schneider puts it pithily, "we refigure 'history' onto bodies, the affective transmissions of showing and telling."…”