“We know that now. Vehicles of transportation include, according to the scholar of memory studies Marianne Hirsch, "narratives, actions and symptoms." The stories we tell and don't tell, the actions we take and don't take, the symptoms expressed by a mother holding the trauma tightly to herself, because she refused to burden her children with it.” MemoryStorytellingFamily HistorySilencingHealing TraumaGenerational TraumaIrish HistoryUnburdeningBiological Trauma Book:In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History Source: In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History