Introduction: "Poison and remedy" : the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia / Stuart Ward and Katie Holmes
Part 1: Legacies of loss
1. "It is not possible for this history to be truthful ..." / Anne Dolan
2. Wounded minds : testifying to traumatic events in Ireland and Australia / Christina Twomey
3. Child sexual abuse, history and the pursuit of blame in modern Ireland / Lindsey Earner-Byrne
4. Apologising to the stolen generations / Judith Brett
5. Memories of violence and the politics of state apologies / Mark Finnane
6. A potent space : Australia's stolen generations and the visual arts / Anna Haebich
7. Contesting the past in Irish film and television / Kevin Rockett
Part 2. Legacies of empire
8. The changing fortunes of national myths : commemorating Anzac Day and the Easter Rising / RoisÃn Higgins
9. The "deficit of remembrance" ; the Great War revival in Australia and Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Stuart Ward
10. Irish and Australian historical fiction / Oona Frawley and Sue Kossew
11. Reconciliation and the history wars in Australian cinema / Felicity Collins
12. Redeeming landscapes : Ireland and Australia / Katie Holmes
13. Tracing the past in Dublin and Canberra : memory, history and nation / Catriona Elder and Yvonne Whelan
14. "Whatever happened to republicanism?" : changing images of the monarchy in Ireland and Australia / John Coakley and Mark McKenna.
Exhuming passions : the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia. ISBN 9780716531449. Published by Irish Academic Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.