A disturbance of memory at Dublin Castle

The minimum pact demanded by the Symbolic Order[1] so that one human being is able to recognise another like himself and thereby suppose an Imaginary dimension has had strange innings in Ireland. Perhaps it's like this in all colonial or post colonial societies where the effect of the Symbolic on the Real has resulted in a psychic space where the Name of the Father as the promise of Otherness has been badly shaken - a place where social bonds make for very tenuous and sometimes very violent links.…