Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Aiken, Síobhra

Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788551663)

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Format: Hardcover
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Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Aiken, Síobhra

Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

$50.00
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Aiken, Síobhra

Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

$50.00
Format: Hardcover
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SPIRITUAL WOUNDS challenges the widespread belief that the contentious events of the Irish Civil War (1922-23) were covered in a total blanket of silence. The book uncovers an archive of published testimonies by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, written in both English and Irish. Most of the testimonies discussed were produced in the 1920s and 1930s, and nearly all have been overlooked in historical study to date. Revolutionaries went to great lengths to testify to the 'spiritual wounds' of civil war: they adopted fictionalised disguises, located their writings in other places or periods of time, and found shelter behind pen names. This wealth of published testimony reveals that the silence of the Irish Civil War was not necessarily a result of revolutionaries' inability to speak, but rather reflects the unwillingness of official memory makers to listen to the stories of civil war veterans.

Author: Síobhra Aiken
ISBN-10: 1788551664
ISBN-13: 9781788551663
Publisher: Merrion Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2022
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.30d
By Síobhra Aiken
By Síobhra Aiken
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Síobhra Aiken is a lecturer in Queen's University Belfast. A former Fulbright Scholar, her publications include The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O'Malley's Interviews with the Northern Divisions (Merrion Press, 2018) and An Chuid Eile Díom Féin: Aistí le Máirtín Ó Direáin (ClÓ Iar-Chonnacht, 2018). Spiritual Wounds is based on her doctoral research at NUI Galway, which was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished Dissertation 2021. She is a regular contributor to television and radio.

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