Britta Olinder, Werner Huber (eds.) 2009

'Place and Memory in the New Ireland' was the theme of the Fifth EFACIS conference held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in December of 2005. The topic was related to the ongoing 'Memory Project' of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN), which has since resulted in Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present, edited by Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, and Lene Yding Pedersen (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). One of the five sections therein explicity deals with "Memory and Place," a nexus that seems quite natural, since these two concepts have to do with belonging and rootedness, both geographically and historically, representing two different dimensions. The question is what they mean today, in the new prosperous conditions of Ireland.

Table of Contents 

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B. Olinder; Introduction
K. A. Miller; Re-Imagining the Imaginary: a Challenge to Revisionist Mythology
G. Davis; Reconstructed Memory: Irish Emigrant Letters from the Americas
V. Peyronel; Urban Regeneration in Belfast: Landscape and Memory
Y. Bévant; Anticipating the Peace Process: in the Name of the Father as a Myth-Breaking Message
T. Walsh; Irish Animation and Radical Memory
H. Clifton; Two Poems
P. Coughlan; "Chipped and Tilted Marys": Two Irish Poets and Their Contemporary Contexts
B. Faragó; "Watch me wherever I go": Ambivalence and Misdirection in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Poetry
M. Pierse; "Out-and-out weary of excavating in the past": the New Irelands of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Dennis O'Driscoll
D. Madden; From Authenticity, Chapter Thirty-Five
M. Ryle; Place, Time, and Perspective in John McGahern's Fiction
D. Clark; Mammies, Trollops, and Re-Claimers of the Night: Women in Patrick McCabe's Fiction
G. Tallone; Here and Then, There and Now: Place and Memory in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Fiction
J. Long; Frank McGuinness and Armand Gatti: Plays of Memory and Survival
Notes on Contributors