Redress : Ireland's institutions and transitional justice / edited by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Donnell, Katherine, editor.

O'Rourke, Maeve, editor.

Smith, James M., 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institutional care--Ireland--History--20th century.

Institutional care.

Institutional care--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Reparations for historical injustices--Ireland.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Reparations for historical injustices--Northern Ireland.

Transitional justice--Ireland.

Transitional justice.

Transitional justice--Northern Ireland.

Institutional care--Ireland.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xix, 495 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2022.

Summary:

"How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores the ways in which Ireland - North and South - treats those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, industrial and reformatory schools, and in a closed and secretive adoption system, over the last 100 years. The essays focus on the structures which perpetuated widespread and systematic abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue to exert power over survivors, adopted people and generations of relatives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialisation of the dead. As we mark the centenary of both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice forensically examines the two states' so-called 'redress' schemes and investigations, and the statements of apology that accompanied them. With diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection considers how a Transitional Justice-based, survivor-centred, approach might assist those personally affected, policy makers, the public, and academics to evaluate the complex ways in which both the Republic and Northern Ireland (and other states in a comparative context) have responded to their histories of institutionalisation and family separation. Importantly, the essays collected in REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seek to offer avenues by which to redress this legacy of continuing harms"--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: TRUTH-TELLING

1. Testimony / Connie Roberts

2. Antigone in Galway: Anne Enright on the Dishonoured Dead / Anne Enright

3. The Lost Children of Tuam / Dan Barry

4. Family Secrets / Clair Wills

5. The Mother of Us All / Emer O'Toole

IRISH STATE (IN)JUSTICE

6. State Responses to Historical Abuses in Ireland: `Vulnerability' and the Denial of Rights / Maeve O'Rourke

7. State Legal Responses to Historical Institutional Abuse: Shame, Sovereignty and Epistemic Injustice / Sinead Ring

8. Access to Justice for Victims of Historic Institutional Abuse / April Duff

9. State's Reaction is to Deny, Delay and to Buy Silence / Conall O. Fatharta

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: OPPORTUNITIES, LIMITS

10. Reparations for Historic Institutional Gender Violence in Ireland: Learning from Transitional Justice / Ruth Rubio Marin

11. The Inner and Outer Limits of Gendered Transitional Justice / Fionnuala Ni Aolain

12. Transitional Justice and Ireland's Legacy of Historical Abuse / James Gotten

MOTHERHOOD AND ADOPTION

13. Creating `Common Sense' Responses to the `Unmarried Mother' in the Irish Free State / Paul Michael Garrett

14. `Disremembrance': Joyce and Irish Protestant Institutions / Mary Burke

15. `Illegitimate' Knowledge: Transitional Justice and Adopted People / Claire McGettrick

16. `It Steadies Me to Tell These Things': Memoir and the Redemptive Power of Truth-Telling / Caitriona Palmer

CHILDREN IN STATE CARE

17. Transitional Justice, Trauma and Healing: Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada / Rosemary Nagy

18. `I Just Want Justice': The Impact of Historical Institutional Child-Abuse Inquiries from the Survivor's Perspective / Patricia Lundy

19. Visualising the Transfers of Abusers in the 2009 Ryan Report / Mark T. Keane

KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY AND THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES

20. Official Ireland's Response to the Magdalene Laundries: An Epistemology of Ignorance / Katherine O'Donnell

21. Materials and Memory: Archaeology and Heritage as Tools of Transitional Justice at a Former Magdalene Laundry / Laura McAtackney

TRUTH-TELLING AND THE ARCHIVE

22. `Finding the me who I truly never quite knew': Lessons from Australia's Find & Connect Project in Facilitating Records Access / Shurlee Swain

23. Transitional Justice, Non-Recent Child Abuse and Archival Research: Lessons from the Case of the UK Child Migration Programmes / Gordon Lynch

24. Knowing and Unknowing Tuam: State Practice, the Archive and Transitional Justice / James M. Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

191082089X

9781910820896

OCLC:

1323246074