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An Intimate Monument (Re)-Narrating 'The Troubles' In Northern Ireland: The Irish Linen Memorial 2001-2005, Lycia Danielle Trouton

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The Irish Linen Memorial creative project is an ongoing site conscious memorial installation which seeks to re narrate the almost 4,000 deaths which took place during the fraught period in contemporary Northern Ireland, called ‘the troubles’. The dead, far from being gone, remain as a powerful part of the community. How we think about the dead, and the stories we tell about the relationship between the dead and the living, are central to imagining new forms of community and narratives of nationhood. An intimate, yet public, monument to those killed, The Irish Linen Memorial is created on white, linen handkerchiefs, …