ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that memorial processes that intend to address, obliquely or explicitly, the pervasive effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Northern Ireland must develop new approaches to facilitate remembrance that is simultaneously private and public, intimate and shared. It is a scholarly reading of the Temple project that explores the ephemeral memorial process as a case study to discuss the ways in which both heritage practices and emotions are necessarily spatialised, contingent, embodied, relational and performative. In accord with the premise that heritage scholars must not treat affect as the result or byproduct of interpretative and curatorial processes, the chapter endeavours instead to engage with 'the agency, context and above all, consequences of the affective moment' in relation to Temple. Temple's overdetermined post-conflict framework freed people to respond outside familiar tropes of post-conflict memory and to move beyond familiar memorial frames of reference bounded by the Troubles.
