Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
2:10 pm
Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I will keep it very short. I thank Professor Morrow very much for his presentation. I was not going to ask a question, but he touched on an area that I am specifically interested in, that of trans-generational or intergenerational trauma. Everybody is impacted in some way, whether they have lost somebody or somebody in their family has been injured, whether it is mental or emotional. Everybody has been impacted in some way, and that is carried down through the generations. From Professor Morrow's perspective, how important is the work that needs to be done on intergenerational trauma? I have "Young People's Transgenerational Issues in Northern Ireland" before me. It was a report prepared for the Commission for Victims and Survivors by Queen's University Belfast. Is that becoming a more prominent topic now? How much interest is there in it, and how important is it?
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