Twinsome Minds
An Act of Double Remembrance
Published on 1. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-9978374-5-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Persons
Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and University College Dublin. He is the author of many books on Irish culture and literature including Transitions: Narratives of Modern Irish Culture (1987), The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1983), Postnationalist Ireland (1988) and Navigations: CollecteI Irish Essays 1977-2006 (2006). He has also published two novels and a volume of poetry. He is co-director of the Guestbook Project for Exchanging Stories with Sheila Gallagher.