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dc.contributor.creatorButler, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-20T11:53:48Z
dc.date.available2021-04-20T11:53:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-03
dc.identifier.citationButler, R. (2020) 'The afterlives of Galway jail, "difficult" heritage, and the Maamtrasna Murders: representations of an Irish urban space, 1882-2018', Irish Historical Studies, 44(166), 295-325.en_US
dc.identifier.issn20564139
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2991
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the spatial history and ‘afterlives’ of Galway jail, where an innocent man, Myles Joyce, was executed in 1882 following his conviction for the Maamtrasna murders; in 2018 he was formally pardoned by President Michael D. Higgins. The article traces how the political and cultural meanings of this incident were instrumentalised in the building of Ireland's last Catholic cathedral on the site of the former Galway jail. It analyses how the site was depicted – in different ways and at different moments – as one of justice, of injustice, of triumph, and of redemption. It investigates how these different legacies were instrumentalised – or at times ignored – by Irish nationalists and later by the Catholic bishop of Galway, Michael Browne. It uses Joyce's execution to explore the site's legacy, an incident that at times dominated its representations but at other moments faded from prominence. The article situates the former jail site within theoretical writings on memorialisation, ‘difficult’ heritage, and studies of architectural demolition, while also commenting on mid twentieth-century Irish Catholic politics and culture.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries44;166
dc.rightsMaterial on these pages is copyright Cambridge University Press or reproduced with permission from other copyright owners. It may be downloaded and printed for personal reference, but not otherwise copied, altered in any way or transmitted to others (unless explicitly stated otherwise) without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Hypertext links to other Web locations are for the convenience of users and do not constitute any endorsement or authorisation by Cambridge University Press.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/en_US
dc.subjectIrish historyen_US
dc.subjectCatholic Churchen_US
dc.subjectGalwayen_US
dc.subjectUrban historyen_US
dc.subjectReligious historyen_US
dc.subjectHeritageen_US
dc.subjectArchitectural historyen_US
dc.titleThe afterlives of Galway jail, "difficult" heritage, and the Maamtrasna Murders: representations of an Irish urban space, 1882-2018 (Pre published)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.type.supercollectionmic_published_revieweden_US
dc.description.versionYesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/ihs.2020.38


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