Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis

Joanna Kruczkowska

doi:10.18778/2083-2931.12.27

Authors

Joanna Kruczkowska University of Lodz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-8199

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.27

Keywords:

Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić, 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Irish housing crisis, memory, museum

Abstract

The aim of the article is to compare three (re)creative activities within one interdisciplinary project: a public space (14 Henrietta St. Museum in Dublin), poetry (Paula Meehan’s cycle of sonnets in Museum of 2019) and photography (Dragana Jurišić’s photos in the same book). They are all examined in the light of the current housing crisis in Ireland, which followed the collapse of the Celtic Tiger in 2008. The Museum project not only comments on the crisis and the changing social relations in Ireland but also challenges the perception of history and private/public memory. In the article, the components of the project are situated against biographical and historical backgrounds, and within the framework of new museology, memory studies, and the functions of photography and poetry.

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Author Biography

Joanna Kruczkowska, University of Lodz

Joanna Kruczkowska works as Associate Professor at the University of Lodz and specializes in comparative poetry, socio-political contexts, translation, travel writing and ecocriticism. Her publications include the monograph Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the edited volume Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets: Essays, Poems, Interviews (Peter Lang, 2018).

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