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Message from President Michael Higgins, Commemoration of the tragedy of the Arandora Star, Termoncarragh Cemetery, County Mayo

"This plaque will join a number of memorials in Britain and Italy which mark the loss of the Italians on board the Arandora Star. We recall too the 358 other victims, mainly of German and British nationality, who were also lost that day. Some of the Arandora Star victims found a resting place in Ireland, and others elsewhere in these islands, after their bodies were washed ashore in the weeks after the tragedy." Michael Higgins. 

Memorial Booklet on the unveiling of the Commemorative Plaque, Middlesborough, 2009

List of the names of those who feature on the memorial in Middlesborough, England.

Deathscape, materiality and memorialisation: Arandora Star remembrance in Scotland *   

This article progresses Second World War historiography of ‘enemy alien’ internment, especially of the SS Arandora Star, sunk in 1940 with a high loss of Italian civilian lives. Employing a new paradigm, that of the deathscape, defined as a topography of death and the practices that surround it, this investigation recontextualises Arandora Star remembrance in Scotland. 

Raising the Arandora Star: history and afterlife of the Second World War sinking

Terri Colpi, 'the memory of this tragic wartime incident has been strongly held and developed within the British Italian community, moving through several phases, from oblivion to recognition and commemoration to a more recent growing awareness in a wider mnemonic community of interest. The aim of this special issue is threefold: to raise further the profile of the Arandora Star; to consolidate and secure the uncertain historical foundations of the event; and to advance the historiography by introducing new facts and perspectives and uncovering previously hidden or unknown aspects both of the past and the continuing afterlife.' 

The Loss of SS Arandora StarArandora Star Memorial Booklet - Middlesborough, England

List of the names of those who feature on the memorial in Middlesborough, England.

The Italian Cloister Garden Memorial, Glasgow, Scotland

Memorial at St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, to those Scots Italians who died in the sinking of the Arandora Star.

Arandora Star: analysis and ‘Embarkation Listing’ of Italians

This paper critically reviews and examines the available data concerning Italians embarked on the SS Arandora Star on 30 June 1940. It encompasses their fate on 2 July when the ship was sunk, their subsequent journeys and the sources used to verify the conclusions. The principal aim is to establish, as far as is possible, the precise number, correct names and other details of those who were embarked on the ship. A fully validated ‘Embarkation Listing’ is published here for the first time.

Ditelo alle Stelle – The tragedy of the SS. Arandora Star: a theatrical rendition

AS Memorial Fund in Wales Booklet

Arandora Star remembered

Conference to Mark the 80th Anniversary, The Italian Cultural Institute, 30th November 2021, 9.30am – 5.00pm.  Presented by The Italian Cultural Institute London, The Mazzini Garibaldi Club Ltd and The Arandora Star London Memorial Trust

Memorials to Arandora Star Tragedy: Mazzini Garibaldi Charitable Foundation

Derek Duncan: Shades of complicity: archives of the ‘implicated subject

 Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK’s historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled strands. 

Arandora Star victims, white paper supplement, Warwick Digital Collections

"During my internment of 11 months which I mostly passed in Seaton or in hospitals under orders of the Seaton Camp authorities, I thoroughly studied the cases of my fellows. This and my peculiar kind of escape of getting drowned in the ARANDORA STAR enable me to complete and - correct the Summary of the Arandora Star Inquiry, conducted by Lord Snell, which has recently been issued as White Paper." Louis Eleazar Gutmann-Pelangen

Arandora Star, comprehensive information, Wikipedia

Blue Star's S.S. "Arandora Star"

 

 

 

 

          

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Deathscape: A notional landscape of death or the cultural practices that surround it, i.e. existing as or based on a suggestion, estimate, or theory; not existing in reality.