Ireland and Victims

Lesley Lelourec is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Languages and Irish Studies at the Université Rennes 2, France. She holds a PhD on contemporary English perceptions of the Irish Question. Her main research interest is in Anglo-Irish relations and the impact of the Troubles in Britain. She has published a number of articles on British attitudes towards Northern Ireland and British media representations of the Troubles.Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies at the Université Rennes 2, France. She completed a PhD on the Irish in England in the post-Second World War period and their fight for recognition as an ethnic minority group. She has recently started a project on Irish emigrants living on the European continent and is currently researching the Irish diaspora in France.

• Contents: Marianne Elliott: Foreword – Lesley Lelourec/Gráinne O’Keeffe-Vigneron: Ireland and Victims: Addressing the Issues – Claire Dubois: ‘The Wooing of Erin’: Women as Victims in the Visual Arts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – Richard S. Grayson: Veterans as Victims: The Experiences and Rediscovery of Irish Nationalists in the British Military in 1914-1918 – Charlotte Barcat: ‘A Truth for the World’: From Widgery to Saville, the Campaign for Truth and Justice about Bloody Sunday – Stephen Hopkins: Victims and Memoir-Writing: Leaving the Troubles Behind? – Stéphane Jousni: Haunting Memories and Haunted Narratives: Ghost Languages and Forbidden Tongues in Hugo Hamilton’s Autobiographies – Jo Dover/John M. Kabia/Rosie Aubrey: Dialogue in Conflict Transformation: A Journey towards Understanding and Humanization – Graham Dawson: Storytelling, Imaginative Fiction and the Representation of Victims of the Irish Troubles: A Cultural Analysis of Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness – Ryszard Bartnik: ‘No Bones’ on the Road to Recovery: Anna Burns’ Socio-Psychological Study of the Northern Irish Predicament – Victoria Connor: ‘A School for Bad Boys’: The Representation of the Industrial School System in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy – Fabrice Mourlon: Assessing the Achievements of Assistance to the Victims of the Conflict in Northern Ireland – Agnès Maillot: Torture, Coercion and Intimidation: The Assassination of Robert McCartney – Déborah Vandewoude: The Industrial Schools in the Republic of Ireland: From Idealistic Salvation to Institutional Abuse – Valérie Morisson: Willie Doherty: Troublesome Portraits/Schizoid Identities – Emma Grey: ‘Returning to the Same Places’: Trauma in the Work of Willie Doherty – Trevor Parkhill: The Ulster Museum History Galleries and Post-Conflict Community Engagement – Hélène Alfaro: The Contribution of Community Arts Activity to the Reconciliation Process.