Contents
Acknowledgementsix
MARIANNE ELLIOTT
Forewordxi
LESLEY LELOUREC AND GRAINNE O’KEEFFE-VIGNERON
Ireland and Victims: Addressing the Issues
Part 1 (Re) Constructing Discourses of Victimhood
1
23
CLAIRE DUBOIS
‘The Wooing of Erin’: Women as Victims in the Visual Arts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
25
RICHARD S. GRAYSON
Veterans as Victims: The Experiences and Rediscovery of Irish
Nationalists in the British Military in 1914–1918
43
CHARLOTTE BARCAT
‘A Truth for the World’: From Widgery to Saville, the Campaign
for Truth and Justice about Bloody Sunday
59
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Part 2 Voicing Victimhood
75
STEPHEN HOPKINS
Victims and Memoir-Writing: Leaving the Troubles Behind?
77
STÉPHANE JOUSNI
Haunting Memories and Haunted Narratives:
Ghost Languages and Forbidden Tongues in Hugo Hamilton’s
Autobiographies99
JO DOVER, JOHN M. KABIA AND ROSIE AUBREY
Dialogue in Conf lict Transformation:
A Journey towards Understanding and Humanization
117
Part 3 Engaging with Victims through Fiction
137
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 Darkness139
RYSZARD BARTNIK
‘No Bones’ on the Road to Recovery: Anna Burns’ SocioPsychological Study of the Northern Irish Predicament
159
VICTORIA CONNOR
‘A School for Bad Boys’: The Representation of the Industrial
School System in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy175
Part 4 Responding to Victims:
Church, State and Paramilitary Reactions
vii
187
FABRICE MOURLON
Assessing the Achievements of Assistance to the Victims
of the Conf lict in Northern Ireland
189
AGNÈS MAILLOT
Torture, Coercion and Intimidation:
The Assassination of Robert McCartney
209
DÉBORAH VANDEWOUDE
The Industrial Schools in the Republic of Ireland:
From Idealistic Salvation to Institutional Abuse
223
Part 5 Contemplating Victimhood in Neutral Spaces
239
VALÉRIE MORISSON
Willie Doherty: Troublesome Portraits/Schizoid Identities
241
EMMA GREY
‘Returning to the Same Places’:
Trauma in the Work of Willie Doherty
259
TREVOR PARKHILL
The Ulster Museum History Galleries and Post-Conf lict
Community Engagement
271
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HÉLÈNE ALFARO
The Contribution of Community Arts Activity to the
Reconciliation Process
287
Notes on Contributors
305
Index313