Ireland's Carceral Memory

9am to 6pm, Old Physics Theatre

From nationalist prisoners in Kilmainham Gaol to direct provision centres for asylum seekers, incarceration in many forms has been central to the making of modern Ireland. Ireland’s Carceral Memory is a one-day symposium bringing together writers, theatre-makers, film-makers, archivists, museum curators, historians and scholars of literature to map how carceral institutions have shaped Ireland’s cultural memory. With a focus on institutions of coercive confinement such as prisons, asylums, mother-and-baby homes, Magdalene laundries, day schools, industrial schools and centres of direct provision, the symposium will appeal to anyone with an interest in Ireland’s carceral histories.

Funded by the European Union. Photo: Vukašin Nedeljković, Mountjoy Prison, 2014.