When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles

Oonagh Murphy; Laura Aguiar

doi:10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v5i1.823

When a 1981 Diary Meets Twitter: Reclaiming a teenage girl’s ordinary experience of the Northern Irish Troubles

Authors

Oonagh Murphy Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Laura Aguiar Public Record Office of Northern Ireland / Nerve Centre, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v5i1.823

Abstract

The Northern Irish Troubles (1969-1998) have been the focus of many cross-disciplinary literature and official and unofficial storytelling projects. When reviewing the accounts produced by these studies and initiatives it is visible that less focus has been paid to the everyday experiences of the Troubles, particularly to a young girl’s perspective of them.