Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation

Quinlan, Kieran; Kiberd, Declan

doi:10.2307/40152671

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“…Every colonial situation is unique and Ireland is no exception. As Kiberd (1996) points out, as a result of "the close proximity of Ireland to England . .…”

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confidence: 99%

Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice: Ireland and Beyond

Rolston

Aoláin

2018

State Crime Journal

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The article begins by addressing the contribution and limits of postcolonial studies to the understanding of colonialism; in particular, it critiques the field's fixation on the discursive to the detriment of the material reality of colonialism. We then examine the intellectual history of transitional justice (TJ) as a field and a practice and itemize some of the criticisms made of its shortcomings, not least in relation to colonial harms. These harms are considered in detail through the specific example of colonialism in Ireland. We focus on the noticeable absence of the concept of colonialism from contemporary deliberations and practices of transition in relation to the Northern Ireland conflict. Finally, we interrogate the ability of TJ in the postcolonial period to adequately make amends for colonialism, again focusing on the Irish case, concluding that while there are major obstacles in such a task, especially in relation to “hard” measures, there are also some promising possibilities, particularly as regards “soft” measures. The lessons learnt are applicable to a range of other transitional sites grappling with postcolonial legacies.

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“…Every colonial situation is unique and Ireland is no exception. As Kiberd (1996) points out, as a result of "the close proximity of Ireland to England . .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice: Ireland and Beyond

Rolston

Aoláin

2018

State Crime Journal

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“…As such, it enjoyed what Inglis has termed a 'moral monopoly', and Ireland in these years was a conservative and relatively monocultural nation (Inglis, 1998). It was in this context, and as part of the broader process of what Declan Kiberd has termed 'inventing Ireland' (Kiberd, 1995), that the Gardaí enjoyed considerable authority.…”

Section: An Garda Síochána and Cultural Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 97%

‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police

Hamilton

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2021

European Journal of Criminology

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While levels of public confidence in the police have declined internationally, the Republic of Ireland appears to have bucked this trend with confidence levels that remain ‘strikingly and stubbornly high’ ( Mulcahy, 2016 : 275). This situation appears all the more puzzling given the wave of scandals to have hit the force in recent decades, ranging from police corruption in Donegal in the late 1990s to a more recent whistleblower scandal that has resulted in the resignation of a slew of Ministers and high-ranking officials. Such developments beg important questions as to the factors sustaining public confidence over this tumultuous period. Drawing on international and domestic data, this article aims to probe this ‘paradox’ of public confidence in the Irish police. It argues that, although confidence is high, there is more to the dynamics of confidence in the police in Ireland than this initial appraisal suggests. Indeed, it advances the Irish case as an illustration both of the dimensionality of the public confidence concept and the complexity of the pathways to trust in the police.

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“…Likely familiar to readers of Irish Studies Review, this persistence may be due to the discipline's entanglements with Irish Studies and thus its sharing of key (and ongoing) debates and discourses with history, which has been dominated by revisionism since the 1990s, leading to many prominent literary critics to forcefully maintain the postcolonial framework against this encroaching historical recasting (see Connolly 2004). David Lloyd (1993), for example, and other contemporaries in the early-1990s such as Declan Kiberd (1996), Shakir Mustafa (1996), Luke Gibbons (1996), and those associated with the Field Day Theatre Company (see Eagleton, Jameson, and Said, 1990) agitated variously against the hegemonic "top-down elite histories" (Cleary 2022) of revisionist historiography, which sought to negate and depoliticise the "colonial" framework in favour of empiricism and so-called historical objectivity. Addressing the subject of colonialism, conversely, became paired with cultural nationalism, in a way that many literary theorists did not shirk, but nonetheless became perceived as an unpopular and unhelpful framework for understanding globalised Ireland in the emerging (neo)liberal, boom-time Republic and a tenuously Peace-time north.…”

Section: Ireland's Postcolonial Ecological Regimementioning

confidence: 99%