Catholic Iconography, Cultural Memory and Imaginaries:: The Sacred Heart in Irish Emigrant Identity

Sean Ryan

Catholic Iconography, Cultural Memory and Imaginaries: The Sacred Heart in Irish Emigrant Identity

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Abstract

My paper focuses on the use of images of Catholic devotional objects (rosarybeads, Sacred Heart painting) to communicate the identity of the working-class Irish emigrant in the photographic novel I Could Read the Sky (O?Grady \& Pyke, 1997). I will focus on how the novel attempts to communicate a collective ?cultural memory? of Irish emigrant identity to second or third generation Irish readers of the novel, as well as nuancing stereotypical images of Irish identity already contained in the ?cultural imaginaries of a wider readership. Accordingly, my paper will tease out some of the distinguishing characteristics of the concepts of ?cultural memory? and cultural imaginary in order to highlight elements of continuity and discontinuity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Religion in Cultural Imaginary :
Subtitle of host publication	Explorations in Visual and Material Practices
Publisher	Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Pages	229-252
Publication status	Published - Jul 2015

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