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My work on conflict is discussed as cosmopraxis in the article Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology by Christine Andrä, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Amaya Querejazu and Victória M S Santos in Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2023 of the journal Global Studies Quarterly, published on 12th December 2023.

This article is also available to read online at:

My article Trauma Memory in Stitch, Sound and Word: From the Troubles and Conflict to Reconciliation and Peace is published in Issue 21, 2023, Issue 2, Special issue on Textiles and Trauma of the journal TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture. It is also available to read online at:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2022.2038985

Eileen Harrisson  Litany

Article FRAGMENTS: Remembering the Troubles in Stitch, Sound and Word

I was invited to write this article based around the work I am doing for my PhD which has as its theme an exploration of the relationship between stitch, sound and word through the prism of my experiences of living and working in Belfast at the height of the ‘Troubles’. The article, published in September 2020, is on the Writing the ‘Troubles’ blog set up by members of Edinburgh University. This blog is intended as a space where academics of all disciplines and others reflect critically on writing about this sensitive subject of the recent conflict in Northern Ireland. People are invited to share ideas, experiment with new perspectives and methodologies, and to trial new projects in a relaxed environment conducive to discussion and this will hopefully enhance understanding of this complicated history.

CONTACT monthly newsletter of the Embroiderers’ Guild
Issue no. 07/19 article entitled Hand Stitch, Performance and the Poetic Word with image from piece Her Pillow, the Earth

Unheard Voices: For The Stories That Need To Be Told
MA Anthology 2019 published by Aberystwyth University
Poem A Stillness of Frost in this issue: for illustrations see below

Critical Military Studies Journal      January 2019
Taylor and Francis Publishers Special Issue Curating Conflict Encounters Essay:
The significance of stitch as vehicle for visual testimony and metaphor for violence and healing

the EGO magazine Issue September 2018
Published by Aberystwyth EGO Limited
Poem After on poetry//barddoniaeth page of the magazine: for illustrations see below

My Journey into Conflict and the World of Arpilleras
Part 1  January 14, 2018
Part 2  April 8, 2018
Part 3  July 1, 2018
This is a blog in 3 parts that I was invited to do by Roberta Bacic and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara in connection with the Stitched Voices Exhibition in Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2017, available to read via the links

Stitching to Mend      February 25, 2018  Stitched Voices Podcast episode 3
Podcast by Liv Williams of myself and Christine Andrä speaking on this topic in connection with the Stitched Voices Exhibition in Aberystwyth Arts Centre, 2017, available to listen on Soundcloud via the link

Disability Arts Cymru Poetry Competition 2017 Stronger Together
Poem Night Walk  in this issue: for artwork see below

Embroidery Magazine Volume 66 November/December 2015
The Hue of Sorrow – Article in Occasional series ‘First Person’

A Grain of Sand
Anthology of Poetry and Prose published by Aberystwyth University 2016
Poems Fragments and Belfast Swan in this anthology: for illustrations see below

Dweud Ein Dweud Having Our Say
Poetry and Prose in English and Welsh published by Disability Arts Cymru 2016
Prose piece Cabbage Reverie in this anthology

Welsh Country magazine Issue 45  March – April 2012
Editorial in the magazine’s Arts in Wales section showcasing exhibition The Invitation in the Cloisters Gallery, St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire

Embroidery Magazine  Volume 62 September/October 2011
Work featured in section ‘A World of Inspiration’

Her Mind’s Eye
Images and Poems by Women Ed. Rachel Lever Pyramid Press 1996
Poems Lagan 1995 and Venice Autumn in this anthology

The West in Her Eye
Poems by Women Ed. Rachel Lever Pyramid Press 1995
Poem Cormorant in this anthology

Spreading the Word
Anthology of Christian Verse Ed. Chris Walton Published by Triumph House 1997
Poem Untitled in this anthology

Illustrations

Arpilleras Poéticas

Book of writings and poems about textile art works called arpilleras by Roberta Bacic and Jaime Huenún Villa published in Chile in Spanish by Pehuén Editores S.A. in 2023. My work Her Pillow, the Earth features alongside the poem SIN TÍTULO by Jaime Pinos.

Hild of Whitby and the Ministry of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World
Book by Anne E. Inman published by Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Maryland 2019
Cover art, portrait of Hild of Whitby and drawing for artist’s imagining of Caedmon the poet

Unheard Voices: For The Stories That Need To Be Told
MA Anthology 2019 published by Aberystwyth University
Cover art My Grandmother, a Life and drawing Islet Hill from the Point in this issue

the EGO magazine Issue September 2018
Details and 1 and 2 from stitched piece After on poetry//barddoniaeth page of the magazine

Wandrian
MA Anthology 2018 published by Aberystwyth University
Illustration Rain on the Water  in this anthology

Disability Arts Cymru Poetry Competition 2017 Stronger Together
Cover artwork  A Belfast Peace: When East meets West

A Grain of Sand
Anthology of Poetry and Prose published by Aberystwyth University 2016
Illustrations  After (two details), A Moment’s Deep Despair and Portrait of my Father in this issue

Disability Arts Cymru Poetry Competition 2016
Image Shoreline Symphony in this issue. Caroline Gill wrote a winning poem in response to my artwork

Blue-Grey Island
Cover art detail from Rain on the Water
Paula Burns Published by Troubador Publishing

Evidence and Transcendence
Cover art detail from Rain on the Water
Anne E. Inman Published by University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana

Images for Africa
An Anthology of Poems and Illustrations Ed. Jane Glencross Published by WaterAid
Pen and ink drawing of man suffering from starvation in this anthology