‘I don’t remember the exact words, but I remember the tone’: writing a history of the sights, sounds and subtleties of the Troubles
Speaker
Roisín Higgins did her degree and PhD at the University of St Andrews and has taught at universities in England, Ireland and Scotland. Her research focuses on the dynamic relationship between past and present, and the ways in which individuals and societies remember and commemorate difficult and contested histories. Roisín’s current work concerns embodied memories of conflict. Her project, ‘Sensing the Troubles: Living through Conflict in Northern Ireland’, was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2021-2. By focusing on sensory histories, the work illuminates the complex ways in which lives are touched by violence. Research, which included interviews with individuals and groups, provides glimpses of lives lived against a background of persistent, often low-level tension. In 2022-3, Roisín received an Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Networking Grant for ‘Towards a Sociosomatic History of the Troubles’ as Principal Investigator.
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