| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in the great hunger |
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Studies in the great hunger (Quinnipiac University)
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| Contents |
A Jersey ship for Ireland / Harvey Strum -- "We cannot but regret the great delay": reflections on the writings of the North Dublin Union Guardians during the famine / Margaret Preston -- Great hunger, unspeakable home: landscape, nature and original sin in Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish girl and William Carleton's The Black prophet / Jefferson Holdridge -- Mapping the imperial body: body image and representation in famine reporting / Robert Smart -- Representing the famine, writing the self: Irish-Canadian narrative / Michael Kenneally -- Writing the famine, healing the future: Nuala O'Faolain's My dream of you / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt -- The cyberculture of Grosse Île / Rhona Richman Kenneally -- The famine, Irish-American transition, and a century of intellectual and cultural history / Mary C. Kelly -- Remembering homelessness in the Great Irish Famine / Niamh Ann Kelly -- "She must have come steerage": the Great Famine in New England folk memory / E. Moore Quinn -- Towards a famine art history: invention, reception, and repetition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth / Emily Mark-FitzGerald |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
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HISTORY.
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Famines
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Hungersnot
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Kongress
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Hongersnood.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Ireland
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Irland
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Valone, David A.
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Quinnipiac University.
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| ISBN |
9780761849001 |
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0761849009 |
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