Connolly, Linda
(2019)
Towards a Further Understanding of the Violence Experienced by Women in the
Irish revolution (MUSSI Working Paper Series, no.7).
Working Paper.
MUSSI.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
During armed conflicts, women’s bodies become battlefields. Did this apply in the
period covering the War of Independence and Civil War or was Ireland’s revolution
an
exception
? Traumatic events that occurred
in this divisive period of Irish history
were s
ubsequently submerged in the
memory of the
new State. Peter Burke has stated
that anthropologists became aware of the problem of “collective amnesia”:
...in investigating oral traditions, while historians encountered it in the course
of studying events such as the Holocaust or civil wars of the twentieth century
in Finland, Ireland, Russia, Spain and elsewhere. The problem is not a loss of
memory at the individual level but the disappearance from public discourse of
certain events...These events are in a sense ‘repressed’ not necessarily because
they were traumatic, though many of them were but because it has become
politically inconvenient to refer to them.
| Item Type: |
Monograph
(Working Paper)
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| Additional Information: |
MUSSI Working Paper Series, no.7 |
| Keywords: |
Further Understanding; Violence; Women; Irish revolution;
MUSSI Working Paper Series; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI |
| Item ID: |
10416 |
| Depositing User: |
Linda Connolly
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| Date Deposited: |
10 Jan 2019 10:08 |
| Publisher: |
MUSSI |
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| Use Licence: |
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