Ireland's Great Hunger Relief, Representation, and Remembrance

by Valone, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780761848998
• ISBN10: 0761848991
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Famine Relief
A Jersey Ship for Ireland	p. 3
"We cannot but regret the great delay": Reflections on the Writings of the North Dublin Union Guardians during the Famine	p. 21
Writing the Famine
Great Hunger, Unspeakable Home: Landscape, Nature and Original Sin in Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl and William Carleton's The Black Prophet	p. 39
Mapping the Imperial Body: Body Image and Representation in Famine Reporting	p. 57
Representing the Famine, Writing the Self: Irish-Canadian Narratives	p. 73
Writing the Famine, Healing the Future: Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You	p. 88
The Cyberculture of Grosse Île	p. 111
Famine Remembrance
The Famine, Irish-American Transition, and a Century of Intellectual and Cultural History	p. 123
Remembering Homelessness in the Great Irish Famine	p. 140
"She must have come steerage": The Great Famine in New England Folk Memory	p. 161
Towards a Famine Art History: Invention, Reception, and Repetition from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth	p. 181
Selected Bibliography	p. 203
Contributors	p. 217
Index	p. 221
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