Coulter, Colin (2020) “What Is This, the Seventies?” Spectres of the Past (and the Future) in Recent Northern Irish Television. Television & New Media. ISSN 1552-8316

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Abstract

For all the gains made during its celebrated peace process, Northern Ireland remains haunted by a conflict that claimed more than 3,700 lives. One of the spaces in which the ghosts of the past manifest themselves is that of television drama. In this article, Mark Fisher’s reading of “hauntology” provides the theoretical frame for an analysis of two recent TV series set in Northern Ireland: The Fall and Derry Girls. Although the programs could not be more different in both tone and content, they both illustrate sharply that the region remains, in John Hewitt’s indelible phrase, a “ghost-haunted land.” In particular, The Fall and Derry Girls reveal that Northern Ireland continues to be deeply troubled both by those who were lost during the conflict and by that which was lost in the transition to peace.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Coulter C. “What Is This, the Seventies?” Spectres of the Past (and the Future) in Recent Northern Irish Television. Television & New Media. December 2021. doi:10.1177/1527476420985826
Keywords:	Northern Ireland; hauntology; The Fall; Derry Girls; Mark Fisher; spectres;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	14906
Identification Number:	10.1177%2F1527476420985826
Depositing User:	Colin Coulter
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2021 16:24
Journal or Publication Title:	Television & New Media
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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