Fischer, ClaraClaraFischer2019-02-272019-02-272017 Hypat2017-11-02Hypatia0887-5367http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9621his article contributes to feminist expositions of emotion and "matters of the heart" by highlighting the gendered nature of the mobilization of shame. It focuses on the role shame plays in state apology and the desire to recover pride. Specifically, it analyzes the state apology offered to the survivors of Magdalen Laundries by Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland. By drawing out how the state apology recreates the Irish nation, it traces the deployment of a potentially productive variety of the politics of shame, which comes to be subverted in the service of keeping the virtuous, feeling "heart" of Ireland—the nation's very core—intact across a temporal, moral continuum.enThis is the author's version of the following article: Fischer, C. (2017), Revealing Ireland's “Proper” Heart: Apology, Shame, Nation. Hypatia, 32: 751-767 which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12358Magdalen LaundriesNationhoodShameMetanarrativesJournal Article32475176710.1111/hypa.123582019-02-07https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/