Ireland's Great Hunger

Silence, Memory, and Commemoration
Herausgeber: Valone, David A.; Kinealy, Christine

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays is based upon papers that were delivered at Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Conference in September 2000. It considers the Great Hunger both as a historical moment that had a devastating and enduring impact on Ireland, and as a social, political, and demographic process that shaped the culture and people of both Ireland and North America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780761823452
• ISBN-10: 076182345X
• Artikelnr.: 31201702

Autorenporträt

David A. Valone has served as an Assistant Professor of history and is Director of freshman academic programs at Quinnipiac University. He has authored works on the educational, linguistic and medical history of Britain, Ireland, and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Christine Kinealy is a reader in history at the University of Central Lancaster. She is the author and co-author of several books on the Great Hunger, including This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852 and A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Table and Figures
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Silence:
Chapter 6 Famine Lifelines: The Transatlantic Letters of James Prendergast
Chapter 7 The "Unborn and Unburied Dead:" The Rhetoric of Ireland's An Gort
Mor
Chapter 8 Irish Immigrants and African Americans: Tangled Roots
Chapter 9 An Agenda for Researching the Famine Experience of Kilglass
Parish, County Roscommon
Chapter 10 W.B. Yeats's Politics of Proximity: or the Famine's Absence in
Yeats's Poetry
Chapter 11 Silent Hunger: The Psychological Impact of the Great Hunger
Chapter 12 Memory:
Chapter 13 Seamus Heaney's "At a Potato Digging" Revisited
Chapter 14 Easing Integration: The Impact of the Great Famine on the
American South
Chapter 15 Performing the Famine: A Look at Contemporary Irish Dramatists
Chapter 16 The Great Hunger: Act of God or Acts of Man?
Chapter 17 "I will sone be home:" Maggie Maher, Emily Dickinson, and an
Irish Trunk Full of Poems
Chapter 18 Commemoration:
Chapter 19 Famine Commemorations: Visual Dialogues, Visual Silences
Chapter 20 Le Mémorial: An Irish Memorial at Grosse Île in Québec
Chapter 21 (De)Constructing the Irish Famine Memorial in Contemporary
Québec
Chapter 22 Reflections on the Grosse Île Memorial in Contemporary Québec: A
Response
Chapter 23 The MacGilligan Family and the Great Hunger: Collaborative
Strategies in an Irish History Course
Chapter 24 Designing the New York State Great Irish Famine Curriculum Guide
Chapter 25 List of Contributors