Ireland's great hunger /

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Imprint:Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2002-c2010.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Valone, David A.
Kinealy, Christine.
Quinnipiac University.
ISBN:076182345X (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761823452 (v. 1 : pbk. : alk. paper)
9780761848998 (v. 2 : pbk. : alk paper)
0761848991 (v. 2 : pbk. : alk paper)
9780761849001 (v. 2 : ebook)
0761849009 (v. 2 : ebook)
Notes:Papers from conferences held to discuss the Great Hunger in 2000 and 2005 at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.
Vol. 2 edited by David A. Valone.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Select bibliography": v. 2, p. 203-215.
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