Twinsome minds : an act of double remembrance / Richard Kearney & Sheila Gallagher.
By: Kearney, Richard [author]
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Contributor(s): Gallagher, Sheila [author] | Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
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BookSeries: Famine folio series: Publisher: Hamden, CT : Ireland's Great Hunger Museum : Quinnipiac University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 47 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780997837452 (paperback); 0997837454.Subject(s): Famines -- Ireland | Autobiographical memory in art | Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 941.70821 Summary: "How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross section of story and history. In an inventive combination of archival imagery, historical records and narrative imagination, they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing and recovery." -- Back cover.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 941.70821 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230974 |
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How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross section of story and history. In an inventive combination of archival imagery , historical records and narrative imagination, they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing and recovery.
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"How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross section of story and history. In an inventive combination of archival imagery, historical records and narrative imagination, they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing and recovery." -- Back cover.