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Brian Friel’s Explorations of Trauma: Volunteers (1975) and Living Quarters (1977)

Trauma is nothing new to Irish history. Invasion and colonization by a neighboring country, wholesale dispossession, the loss of a native language, widespread famine and mass emigration, a war for independence, Partition, civil war, and sectarian violence: a history that includes these and other traumatic events has understandably left its mark on Irish literature. In fact, recent history has been comparatively placid (at least outside the North) in terms of historical trauma. But the attention that Irish writers have paid to such trauma has intensified in recent decades. Pointing to the large number of “trauma novels” written from 1970 to 2000, Robert F. Garratt distinguishes them from “novels about trauma”: