Holodomor and Gorta Mor

by Noack, Christian; Janssen, Lindsay; Comerford, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780857285577
• ISBN10: 0857285572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-15
• Publisher: Anthem Pr

Summary

Holodomor and Gorta Mór is a comparative study of Ireland's Great Famine, or 'an Gorta Mór', (1845-51) and Ukraine's 'Holodomor' (1932-33) that examines the role of historical identities and national historical narratives of the two nations. Written by eminent historians, political scientists, and literary and film scholars, this volume is the first attempt to draw these approaches together to explore how the historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Christian Noack is Associate Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lindsay Janssen is currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Vincent Comerford is Professor Emeritus of Modem History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland	p. 1
Histories, Historiography and Politics
Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-1933: An Interpretation of Facts	p. 19
Ethnic Issues in the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine	p. 35
Grievance, Scourge or Shame? The Complexity of Attitudes to Ireland's Great Famine	p. 51
Public Commemoration
History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks	p. 77
Teaching Hunger: The Great Irish Famine Curriculum in New York State Schools	p. 103
Remembering Famine Orphans: The Transmission of Famine Memory between Ireland and Quebec	p. 115
The Irish Famine and Commemorative Culture	p. 145
Trauma and Victimisation
Holodomor and the Politics of Memory in Ukraine after Independence	p. 167
The Great Irish Famine in Stories for Children in the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century	p. 189
Collective Trauma in a Feature Film: Golod-33 as One-of-a-Kind	p. 197
New Sources and New Approaches to the Irish and Ukrainian Famines
In Search of New Sources: Polish Diplomatic and Intelligence Reports on the Holodomor	p. 215
Oral History, Oral Tradition and the Great Famine	p. 231
Mapping Population Change in Ireland 1841-1851: Quantitative Analysis Using Historical GIS	p. 245
Index	p. 269
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