Redress :

Redress : Ireland's institutions and transitional justice / edited by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M. Smith. - Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2022. - xix, 495 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Irelands Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores the ways in which Ireland North and South treats those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, industrial and reformatory schools, and in a closed and secretive adoption system, over the last 100 years. The essays focus on the structures which perpetuated widespread and systematic abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue to exert power over survivors, adopted people and generations of relatives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialisation of the dead. As we mark the centenary of both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, REDRESS: Irelands Institutions and Transitional Justice forensically examines the two states so-called redress schemes and investigations, and the statements of apology that accompanied them. With diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection considers how a Transitional Justice-based, survivor-centred, approach might assist those personally affected, policy makers, the public, and academics to evaluate the complex ways in which both the Republic and Northern Ireland (and other states in a comparative context) have responded to their histories of institutionalisation and family separation. Importantly, the essays collected in REDRESS: Irelands Institutions and Transitional Justice seek to offer avenues by which to redress this legacy of continuing harms. -- Back cover.

9781910820896


Institutional care--History--Ireland--20th century.
Catholic institutions--History--Ireland--20th century.
Imprisonment--History.--Ireland
Inmates of institutions--History.--Ireland
Women--Institutional care--History.--Ireland
Restorative justice--Ireland.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Ireland.


Ireland--Social conditions--20th century.