‘States of Confinement’ was an event hosted by the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics at the Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin on 15 November 2023. The event explored and celebrated the autobiographical life writing and political fiction of Rosamund Jacob and Dorothy Macardle.
Jacob and Macardle wrote journals during their imprisonment in Mountjoy Prison and Kilmainham Jail as Republican activists during the Irish Civil War in 1922-3.
To mark the centenary of their incarceration and the legacy of their writing, actors Carrie Crowley and Kathy Rose O’Brien read selections from the jail journals, academics contextualised the life and writing of Jacob and Macardle, and contemporary writers Sophie White, Sinéad Gleeson, and Lia Mills shared extracts from their work.
In this recording we hear from Sharon McArdle as part of an event titled Jacob and Macardle in Context Networks, Cultural Memory, and the Gothic.
This recording is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 884951). VICTEUR: European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture uses big data to address a key unanswered societal question, how does migration impact on the cultural identity of both migrant and host communities in the historical long-term. For more information see projectvicteur.com.
