A Great Silence Lay Upon the Land: Secreted Histories of Ireland

Authors

  • Ailbhe Smyth

Abstract

This piece was written by invitation as a personal response to It Has No Name, an art exhibition held in Dublin in 2013.  In the exhibition, the four artists—Pauline Cummins, Sandra Johnston, Frances Mezzeti, and Dominic Thorpe—explored through live performances the shocking revelations emerging since the early 1990s of widespread and brutal clerical and institutional abuse of children, young people, and women in Ireland. 

Author Biography

Ailbhe Smyth

Ailbhe Smyth is an activist and former academic who has been involved in feminist, LGBT, and radical politics for a long time. She set up and was head of Women’s Studies at UCD (University College Dublin) from 1990 until 2006. Ailbhe has published widely on feminism, politics, and culture in contemporary Ireland.

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Published

2019-02-03

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2018): Performance and Bodies-Politic

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