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Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
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.
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Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
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.
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Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

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

Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

by Sïobhra Aiken

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788551663
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Publication date: 04/25/2022
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Unspeakable Irish Civil War? 1

1 'Ridding Ourselves of the Past': Therapeutic Testimony 20

2 From Rest to Writing Cures: Testifying to Women's Pain 68

3 Hidden in Plain Sight: Witnesses to Sexual Violence 116

4 'A Dispossessed People': Spiritual Exiles and Exiled Emigrants 157

5 'I Killed at Least a Dozen Fellow Irishmen': Perpetrator Testimony 194

Afterword: Acts of Reparation 232

Endnotes 243

Bibliography 302

Acknowledgements/Nóta buíochais 333

Index 336

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