Linen Memorial - Northern Ireland Troubles, Ireland Conflict

The Linen Memorial is a Northern Ireland conflict memorial dedicated to those who live with ongoing trauma and grief.

This Troubles Memorial was unveiled on The Private Day of Reflection, 2007 in Northern Ireland on the summer solstice 21st June at a centre for peace and reconciliation: The Corrymeela Community, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.

It is an alternative history of the Ireland Troubles.

The Troubles Northern Ireland memorial is a non-heirarchical list of hand-sewn names, from the years of The Troubles.

Art may contribute to healing the wounds of The Troubles, the Northern Ireland conflict.

This is a funerary record, on 400 linen handkerchiefs, of the toll of human lives lost during The Troubles Northern Ireland; persons are listed chronologically from ALL sides of the political divide, without bias.

Linen has been used for centuries to shroud the dead.

Northern Ireland has long been famous for its export of Irish Linen, especially embroidered and designed handkerchiefs, along with Northern Ireland flax farming and linen manufacturing or linen production, especially in the industrial city of Edwardian Belfast.

This is a non-traditional monument. It is mobile and can travel to places where there is grief and division. The artist and her project act as witness to the on-going need for mourning from grief and trauma, seek a quiet space for healing, and perhaps, also, for reconciliation and forgiveness (or “ a parity-of-esteem-for-difference”).

For more information, please contact the artist by filling in the contact form at this site: www.speakercontemporaryart.com/contact.php