ABSTRACT
This chapter examines visual art’s role as the bearer of memories of the illegally detained, forcibly migrated, and improperly buried—in this case, the disappeared of the Northern Irish Troubles. In particular, it discusses the photography of David Farrell and the filmic production of Willie Doherty in the light of Bella Brodzki’s suggestion that translation is a mode through which the disappeared may be borne anew in other contexts. In bringing about such cultural exchange, translators (understood in the widest sense) facilitate migrations across frontiers and borders, in this instance not only through artistic approximations in different media but in highlighting the ambiguous role of a hard, political border on the island of Ireland during the Troubles.
