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Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Edited By Marguerite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken
The 150
th
anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, interest in the Irish Famine – both scholarly and popular – has soared once again. A key event in Irish cultural memory, the crisis still crops up regularly in public discourse within Ireland and among the Irish diaspora. This volume, containing essays by distinguished scholars such as Peter Gray, Margaret Kelleher and Chris Morash, offers new perspectives on the Famine and its contexts. Addressing the challenges and opportunities for Irish Famine studies today, the book presents a stimulating dialogue between a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the Famine and its legacies.
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2014. 345 pp., num. fig. and tables
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen: Introduction
- Famine Memory: Politics and Literature
- Irish Studies and Famine Memory
- New Directions
- The Outline of this Volume
- Section I: Rewriting History
- Margaret Kelleher: The ‘Affective Gap’ and Recent Histories of Ireland’s Great Famine
- New Famine Histories and the ‘Fiction-Effect’
- Revisiting Earlier Historiography: ‘The Generation After’
- Famine and its Affective Economies: Why Gender Matters
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Peter Gray: The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c. 1860–1914
- Mitchel’s ‘History’
- O’Rourke and Catholic Famine History
- Irish Liberal Interpretations
- Froude, Goldwin Smith and the British View
- Conclusion
- Andrew G. Newby: ‘Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies’: Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856–1868
- Damage Limitation: Britain and Finland in the late 1850s
- Humiliating the Tsar: The 1862 Crisis
- Stretching Forth the Hand of Help: British Relief Efforts in 1868
- Conclusion
- Peter Slomanson: Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift
- Societal Reorganization in the Wake of Disaster
- Self-Imposed Linguistic Repression as a Collective Response to Cataclysm
- Correlating Language Shift with Other Changes: The Need for New Interdisciplinary Research
- Conclusion
- Section II: Rereading the Classics
- Gordon Bigelow: Anthony Trollope’s Famine Economics
- Capitalism without History
- Hamlet without the Prince
- Chris Morash: ‘Where All Ladders Start’: Famine Memories in Yeats’s Countess Cathleen
- Yeats and Minor Literature
- The Famine and the Countess
- ‘Where All Ladders Start’
- Section III: Commemorating the Dead
- Jonny Geber: Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Famine through Archaeology
- Famine Archaeologies at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse
- The Bioarchaeology of the Poor and Destitute
- The Human Experience of the Great Irish Famine – A Painful Endurance of Scurvy
- Telling Their Story
- Conclusion
- Melissa Fegan: Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Sending Them off Mean: Famine Funerals in Irish Literature
- Haunted Cabins and Ghost Estates in Contemporary Famine Novels
- Spectres of Famine
- Section IV: Spacing the Famine
- Declan Curran: Geographic Scale and the Great Famine
- Geographic Scales
- The Mahon Murder in Context
- Repercussions of the Mahon Murder across Scales
- Conclusion
- Paul S. Ell, Niall Cunningham and Ian N. Gregory: No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine
- Ireland’s Religious Geographies in 1834
- The Famine Period: Religious Change 1834 to 1861
- Longer-Term Religious Change after the Famine
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Section V: Atlantic Connections
- David Sim:Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism: The United States and the Great Famine
- Jason King: The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal
- Coffin Ships and Fever Sheds
- Textual and Visual Mediations of Famine Memory
- Anxiety of Proselytization
- Fever and Festivity
- Famine Memory and the Elision of Ethno-Religious Conflict
- Conclusion
- Mark G. Mcgowan: Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration
- The Historical Context of the Famine in British North America
- Commemoration of the Famine
- Ireland Park
- Conclusion
- David Lloyd: Afterword: The Afterlife of the Untimely Dead
- Bibliography
- Journals and Newspapers
- Archives and Manuscript Collections
- General Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index
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Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken (eds)
Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine
Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen: Introduction
- Famine Memory: Politics and Literature
- Irish Studies and Famine Memory
- New Directions
- The Outline of this Volume
- Section I: Rewriting History
- Margaret Kelleher: The ‘Affective Gap’ and Recent Histories of Ireland’s Great Famine
- New Famine Histories and the ‘Fiction-Effect’
- Revisiting Earlier Historiography: ‘The Generation After’
- Famine and its Affective Economies: Why Gender Matters
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Peter Gray: The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c. 1860–1914
- Mitchel’s ‘History’
- O’Rourke and Catholic Famine History
- Irish Liberal Interpretations
- Froude, Goldwin Smith and the British View
- Conclusion
- Andrew G. Newby: ‘Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies’: Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856–1868
- Damage Limitation: Britain and Finland in the late 1850s
- Humiliating the Tsar: The 1862 Crisis
- Stretching Forth the Hand of Help: British Relief Efforts in 1868
- Conclusion
- Peter Slomanson: Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift
- Societal Reorganization in the Wake of Disaster
- Self-Imposed Linguistic Repression as a Collective Response to Cataclysm
- Correlating Language Shift with Other Changes: The Need for New Interdisciplinary Research
- Conclusion
- Section II: Rereading the Classics
- Gordon Bigelow: Anthony Trollope’s Famine Economics
- Capitalism without History
- Hamlet without the Prince
- Chris Morash: ‘Where All Ladders Start’: Famine Memories in Yeats’s Countess Cathleen
- Yeats and Minor Literature
- The Famine and the Countess
- ‘Where All Ladders Start’
- Section III: Commemorating the Dead
- Jonny Geber: Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Famine through Archaeology
- Famine Archaeologies at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse
- The Bioarchaeology of the Poor and Destitute
- The Human Experience of the Great Irish Famine – A Painful Endurance of Scurvy
- Telling Their Story
- Conclusion
- Melissa Fegan: Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Sending Them off Mean: Famine Funerals in Irish Literature
- Haunted Cabins and Ghost Estates in Contemporary Famine Novels
- Spectres of Famine
- Section IV: Spacing the Famine
- Declan Curran: Geographic Scale and the Great Famine
- Geographic Scales
- The Mahon Murder in Context
- Repercussions of the Mahon Murder across Scales
- Conclusion
- Paul S. Ell, Niall Cunningham and Ian N. Gregory: No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine
- Ireland’s Religious Geographies in 1834
- The Famine Period: Religious Change 1834 to 1861
- Longer-Term Religious Change after the Famine
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Section V: Atlantic Connections
- David Sim:Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism: The United States and the Great Famine
- Jason King: The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal
- Coffin Ships and Fever Sheds
- Textual and Visual Mediations of Famine Memory
- Anxiety of Proselytization
- Fever and Festivity
- Famine Memory and the Elision of Ethno-Religious Conflict
- Conclusion
- Mark G. Mcgowan: Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration
- The Historical Context of the Famine in British North America
- Commemoration of the Famine
- Ireland Park
- Conclusion
- David Lloyd: Afterword: The Afterlife of the Untimely Dead
- Bibliography
- Journals and Newspapers
- Archives and Manuscript Collections
- General Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series Index