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Personal lives: narrative accounts of Irish women in the diaspora

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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:09 authored by Bronwen Walter
The burst of writing about Irish women in the diaspora after the 1980s, led by Mary Lennon, Marie McAdam and Joanne O'Brien's Across the Water: Irish Women's Lives in Britain, coincided with the ‘narrative turn’ in the social sciences and literary representation. This paper uses Carol Smart's concepts of Personal Life (2007) – memory, biography, embeddedness, relationality and the imaginary – to examine a range of ways in which personal narratives have become central to our understandings of Irish women and their descendants in both written and visual representations. It interweaves disciplines, bringing together a wide range of sources including academic and public accounts in which Irish women appear both as main characters and in walk-on parts. It explores constructions of these ‘fictions’ and their connections with the biographies of authors.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

21

Issue number

1

Page range

37-54

Publication title

Irish Studies Review

ISSN

1469-9303

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2013-05-30

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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