Knowing and unknowing Tuam : state practice, the archive and transitional justice / James M. Smith. Testimony / Mary Harney, Mari Steed, Caitriona Palmer, Terri Harrison, Rosemary Adaser, Conrad Bryan, Susan Lohan and Connie Roberts -- Antigone in Galway : Anne Enright on the dishonoured dead / Anne Enright -- The lost children of Tuam / Dan Berry -- Family secrets / Clair Wills -- The mother of us all / Emer O'Toole -- State responses to historical abuses in Ireland : 'vulnerability' and the denial of rights / Maeve O'Rourke -- State legal responses to historical institutional abuse : shame, sovereignty and epistemic injustice / Mairead Enright and Sinead Ring -- Access to justice for victims of historical institutional abuse / Colin Smith and April Duff -- State's reaction is to deny, delay and to buy silence / Conall O. Fatharta -- Reparations for historic institutional gender violencec in Ireland : learning from transitional justice / Ruth Rubio Marin -- The inner and outer limits of gendered transitional justice / Fionnuala Ni Aolain -- Transitional justice and Ireland's legacy of historical abuse / James Gallen -- Creating 'common sense' responses to the 'unmarried mother' in the Irish free state / Paul Michael Garrett -- 'Disrememberance' : Joyce and Irish Protestant institutions / Mary Burke -- 'Illegitimate' knowledge : transitional justice and adopted people / Claire McGettrick -- 'It steadies me to tell these things' : memoir and the redemptive power of truth-telling / Caitriona Palmer -- Transitional justice, trauma and healing : indigenous residential schools in Canada / Rosemary Nagy -- 'I just want justice' : the impact of historical institutional child-abuse inquiries from the survivor's perspective / Patricia Lundy -- Visualising the transfers of abusers in the 2009 Ryan report / Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy and Mark T. Keane -- Official Ireland's response to the Magdalene laundries : an epistemology of ignorance / Katherine O'Donnell -- Materials and memory : archaeology and heritage as tools of transitional justice at a former Magdalene laundry / Laura McAtackney -- 'Finding the me who I truly never quite knew' : lessons from Australia's find & connect project in facilitating records access / Shurlee Swain -- Transitional justice, non-recent child abuse and archival research : lessons from the case of the UK child migration programmes / Gordon Lynch -- Knowing and unknowing Tuam : state practice, the archive and transitional justice / James M. Smith.
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.
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