Abstract
It is apparent that remembering Orphanhood revolves largely around two spaces: Nazareth House and the transition of leaving care. This chapter explores the memories of experiences of growing up in Nazareth House; ranging from the general to the more self-specific memories. The memories can be split into roughly five genres; memories of the house, memories which have significantly impacted upon the self, memories of the everyday, humorous memories, memories of negotiating and memories of feeling at home. Using Giddens (1991) ‘reflexive project of the self’ ‘Remembering a Home of Origin: Creating Places through memory’ concludes with the argument that identity, for the Girls of Nazareth House, is located in memories of space and of home.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Bibliography
Alvarez, A., & Phillips, A. (1998). The importance of play: A child psychotherapist’s view. Child Psychology & Psychiatry Review, 3(3), 99–103.
Bettleheim, B. (1987). The importance of play. In The Atlantic, March, pp. 41–49. Retrieved January 2012 from, http://faculty.spokanefalls.edu/InetShare/AutoWebs/kimt/The%20Importance%20of%20Play.pdf.
Biehal, N., Clayden, J., Stein, M., & Wade, J. (1995). Moving on: Young people and leaving care schemes. London: HMSO.
Biehal, N., & Wade, J. (1996). Looking back, looking forward: Care leavers, families and change. Children and Youth Services Review, 18(4/5), 425–445.
Brown, S., & Reavey, P. (2015). Vital memory and affect: Living with a difficult past. London: Routledge.
Carr, N. (2010). Marginal figures?—Child detention in the Republic of Ireland: A history of the present. Unpublished thesis, University of Dublin, Trinity College.
Crook, T. (2008). Norms, forms and beds: Spatializing sleep in Victorian Britain. Body and Society, 14(4), 15–35.
Crowley, U., & Kitchin, R. (2008). Producing ‘decent girls’: Governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922–1937). Gender, Place and Culture, 15(4) (August), 355–372.
Elliott, A. (2007). Concepts of the self. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Ferguson, H. (2007). Abused and looked after children as ‘moral dirt’: Child abuse and institutional care in historical perspective. Journal of Social Policy, 36(1), 123–139.
Flannery, T. (2009). Some ideas on a new approach to catholic sexual teaching. In T. Flannery (Ed.), Responding to the Ryan Report. Dublin: Columbia Press.
Foucault, M. (1986). Of other spaces. Diacritics, 16(1) (Spring), 22–27.
Foucault, M. (2002). In J. D. Faubion (Ed.), Power: Essential works of Foucault 1954–1984 (Vol. 3). London: Penguin.
Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and self identity: Self and society in the late modern age. Cambridge: Polity.
Giulini, M. V., & Barbey, G. (2010). Autobiographical reports of residential experience: An exploratory study. Retrieved April 2011 from, http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35520510/Autobiographical-reports070520—ISTC—Istituto-di-Scienze-e.
Goffman, E. (1991). Asylums: Essays on the social situations of mental patients and other inmates. London: Penguin.
Hareven, T. (1991). The home and the family in historical perspective. Social Research, 58(1) (Spring), 253–285.
Harrison, S., & Dourish, P. (1996). Re-placing space: The roles of place and space in collaborative systems. Retrieved May 2011 from, http://www.dourish.com/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf.
Hegar, R. L. (2005). Sibling placement in foster care and adoption: An overview of international research. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 717–739.
Herrick, M. A., & Piccus. W. (2005). Sibling connections: The importance of nurturing sibling bonds in the foster care system. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 845–861.
Hetherington, K. (1998). Expressions of identity. Space, performance, politics. London: Sage.
Keogh, D. (2009). Letterfrack: Peter Tyrrell and the Ryan Report. In T. Flannery (Ed.), Responding to the Ryan Report. Dublin: Columbia Press.
Kools, S. M. (1997). Adolescent identity and development in foster care. Family Relations, 46(3), 263–271.
Leathers, S. J. (2005). Separation from siblings: Associations with placement adaptation and outcomes among adolescents in long-term foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 793–819.
Maguire, M. J., & O Cinnéide, S. (2005). ‘A good beating never hurt anyone’: The punishment and abuse of children in twentieth century Ireland. Journal of Social History, 38(3) (Spring), 365–652.
Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: A critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52, 62–89.
Maso, I. (2003). Necessary subjectivity: Exploiting researchers’ motives, passions and prejudices in pursuit of answering ‘true’ questions. In L. Finlay & B. Gough (Eds.), Reflexivity: A practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences. Oxford: Blackwell.
McAdams, D. (1993). The stories we live by: Personal myths and the making of the self. New York: Guildford Press.
McConvery, B. (2009). The shaping of Irish religious life. In T. Flannery (Ed.), Responding to the Ryan Report. Dublin: Columbia Press.
Murdoch, L. (2006). Imagined orphans: Poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Murphy, J. (2010). Memory, identity and public narrative: Composing a life-story after leaving institutional care, Victoria, 1945–83. Cultural and Social History, 7(3), 297–314.
Prone. (2009). Bricks on the road to hell. In T. Flannery (Ed.), Responding to the Ryan Report. Dublin: Columbia Press.
Reid, B. (2007). Creating counterspaces: Identity and the home in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25, 933–950.
Richardson, T., & Jensen, O. B. (2003). Linking discourse and space: Towards a cultural sociology of space in analysing spatial policy discourses. Urban Studies, 40(1), 7–22.
Schutz, A. (1945). The Homecomer. The American Journal of Sociology, 50(5) (March), 369–376.
Shlonsky, A., Bellamy, J., Elkins, J., & Ashare, C. (2005). The other kin: Setting the course for research, policy, and practice with siblings in foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 697–716.
Skehill, C. (2010). History of child welfare and protection social work in Northern Ireland: Finding continuity amongst discontinuity in case files from 1950 to 1968. Child Care in Practice, 16(4) (October), 309–325.
Stein, M., & Carey, K. (1986). Leaving care. Oxford: Blackwell.
Taylor, P. J. (1999). Places, spaces and Macy’s: Place-space in the political geography of modernities. Progress in Human Geography, 23(1), 7–26.
Tuan, Y. F. (1977). Space and place: The perspective of experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Van Blerk, L. (2005). Negotiating spatial identities: Mobile perspectives on street life in Uganda. Children’s Geographies, 3(1), 5–21.
Wulczyn, F., & Zimmerman, E. (2005). Sibling placements in longitudinal perspective. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 741–763.
Yow, V. R. (2005). Recording oral history: A guide for the humanities and social sciences. Walnut Creek: AltaMira.
Woodman, J. (1888). On sanitary science or preventative medicine. The British Medical Journal, 28 (July), 173–174.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Edwards, D. (2017). Remembering a Home of Origin: Creating Places Through Memory. In: Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64039-6_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64039-6_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64038-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-64039-6
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)