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A podcast about the history and politics of Irish republicanism featuring a range of interviews with historians, activists, writers and artists. Presented and produced by Daniel Baker.
Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War with Síobhra Aiken
The Echo Of The Thunder
1 hour 11 minutes 47 seconds
2 years ago
Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War with Síobhra Aiken
For episode 7 of the podcast I am joined by Siobhra Aiken. Her book Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War deconstructs the concept of the Civil War as "the unspeakable war".
She outlines the ways in which a raft of Civil War veterans set out to depict their experiences. While considered by the chattering classes to be low brow pulp at best or subliterature at worst, they read now as a secret history of the post-Civil War period and the efforts republican combatants made to write against the compromises of the Free State.
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The Echo Of The Thunder
A podcast about the history and politics of Irish republicanism featuring a range of interviews with historians, activists, writers and artists. Presented and produced by Daniel Baker.
