Ireland's great hunger /
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Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2002-c2010. |
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Description: | 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in the great hunger Studies in the great hunger (Quinnipiac University) |
Subject: | Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Genocide -- Government policy. Genocide. Famines. Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4751216 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "The Famine Killed Everything": Living with the Memory of the Great Hunger
- Part 1. Silence
- Chapter 1. Famine Lifelines: The Transatlantic Letters of James Prendergast
- Chapter 2. The "Unborn and Unburied Dead": The Rhetoric of Ireland's An Gorta Mor
- Chapter 3. The Tangled Roots of Irish Immigrants and African Americans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Chapter 4. An Agenda for Researching the Famine Experience of Kilglass Parish, County Roscommon
- Chapter 5. W. B. Yeats's Politics of Proximity: or The Famine's Absence in Yeats's Poetry
- Chapter 6. Silent Hunger: The Psychological Impact of the Great Hunger
- Part 2. Memory
- Chapter 7. Seamus Heaney's "At a Potato Digging" Revisited
- Chapter 8. Easing Integration: The Impact of the Great Famine on the American South
- Chapter 9. Performing the Famine: A Look at Contemporary Irish Dramatists
- Chapter 10. The Great Hunger: Act of God or Acts of Man?
- Chapter 11. "I will sone be home": Margaret Maher, Emily Dickinson, and an Irish Trunk Full of Poems
- Part 3. Commemoration
- Chapter 12. Famine Commemorations: Visual Dialogues, Visual Silences
- Chapter 13. Le Memorial: An Irish Memorial at Grosse Ile in Quebec
- Chapter 14. (De)Constructing the Irish Famine Memorial in Contemporary Quebec
- Chapter 15. Reflections on the Grosse Ile Memorial in Contemporary Quebec: A Response
- Chapter 16. The MacGilligan Family and the Great Hunger: Collaborative Strategies in an Irish History Course
- Chapter 17. Designing the New York State Great Irish Famine Curriculum Guide
- List of Contributors