Indeed, it is argued here that the widespread deployment of gothic tropes in anti-state political rhetoric and cultural practices are suggestive of a particular type of political agency and memory work. This paper explores how the capital city could become eerie and shadowy, an in-between and unstable site for alternative forms of cultural articulation and political mobilization. Dublin was a haunted city in these years, with the residues of violence and an unfulfilled revolutionary potential suffusing the ravaged streetscapes. Through their spectral practices, the Ghosts sought to question and unsettle the new elites – they literally and figuratively haunted history. Associated with the (defeated) republican women’s organisation Cumann na mBan, the Ghosts self-consciously represented themselves as an otherworldly presence that would haunt the fledging pro-Treaty government.
One striking sign of this haunting is in the activities of individuals describing themselves as Ghosts – a recalcitrant group that signed and distributed a series of political leaflets across the capital.
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This was the period when the aftermath of the Irish Civil War dominated the social and political landscape of the new Free State. There are 30+ professionals named 'Gerard Mooney', who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. This essay explores the idea that Dublin was a haunted urban space in the 1920s and 30s. View the profiles of professionals named 'Gerard Mooney' on LinkedIn.
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