Reconstructions. Steafán Hanvey

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      Reconstructions

      Dedicated to Sini –

      the one who holds it all together,

      and to our greatest works so far,

      Lumi and Luca.

      Reconstructions

      ‘The Troubles’ in Photographs and Words

      Poems & Words by Steafán Hanvey

      Photographs by Bobbie Hanvey

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      First published in 2019 by

      Merrion Press

      An imprint of Irish Academic Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

       www.merrionpress.ie

      © Steafán Hanvey & Bobbie Hanvey, 2019

      Words © Steafán Hanvey

      Photographs © Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Massachusetts

      Courtesy of the Trustees of Boston College

      Editor: Desmond C. Fitzgibbon

      9781785372162 (Cloth)

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      An entry can be found on request

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Graphic Design: Amanda / Creanda Oy and Steafán Hanvey

      Interior design by www.jminfotechindia.com

      Typeset in Adobe Garamond Pro 11.5/15

      Jacket front: PIRA Bomb in Belfast city centre. Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives (MS2001.039),

      John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

      Jacket back: RUC officers from Clogher station with Sarah Primrose.

      Photographic title: bh012536

      Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives (MS2001.039), John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

      Contents

       Acknowledgements

       Foreword by Billy O’Callaghan

       Introduction

       Biographies

       Late Developer

       All Key-Holders Attend … (The Devil’s in the Retail)

       Plan B (Unravelling Night)

       Gotcha!

       An Undertaking

       Mongrel Tongue (Between You, Be It!)

       The Most Trying of Colours (The Trickler)

       Carson-Parson

       Easter 1974

       Longley’s Lists

       Perspective (Another Day in Paradise)

       Trigger Treat

       The Way of Them

       Though I Walk in the Valley …

       Proxy (Ghost in the Machine)

       The Ninth Hole

       17 (Cause to Grieve)

       Photographic Credits

      ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RECONSTRUCTIONS

      ‘Reconstructions is a wondrous outburst. Steafán Hanvey’s poems are an unrestrained response to the work of his father, the great Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey. They are bold improvisations on his themes of conflict and community. These heartfelt refractions find their own shape. They are nobly dishevelled, and they cry out to be read.’

      Michael Longley

      ‘This unique and heady blend of documented violence and photographic memory poses timely questions for present social understanding of the way we were. [Its] drama and tragicomic wit ... is both potent and devastating ....’

      Medbh McGuckian

      ‘Authentic, innovative and keenly honed prose poetry ... An astonishing and visceral work that strikes clean to the often-dark but always-shining heart of Northern Ireland. A heady combination of words that set the pictures alight.’

      Billy O’Callaghan

      ‘Steafán Hanvey was eyewitness to the genesis of so many of his father’s famous photographs, and it is obvious that the father’s iconic work has lain in the darkroom of the son’s memory and imagination, waiting to be developed into prose-poems of poignancy and power, showcased now in Reconstructions, a stunning symbiosis of word and image.’

      Adrian Rice

      We did not write in Yeats’s shadow, as some would have it, but in the lighthouse beam of his huge accomplishment.

      – Michael Longley

      This book’s making wasn’t entirely of my own doing – far from it. My darling Sini must take the lion’s share of the credit for ensuring I got this book over the line.

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