In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places,
so "reduced" that they treated each other with brutal callousness.
Husbands abandoned wives and children. Mothers snatched food from
the hands of infants. Neighbours stole each other's rations. People
even killed for food. And this callousness extended to the dead.
Human bodies were dumped in mass graves or left unburied to be
ravaged by dogs and pigs, rats, ravens, and gulls. There were
reports too of cannibalism.In later years, some people, who
themselves suffered in the 1840s, were ashamed of having failed to
offer human solidarity to others in distress. Yet if there were
subjects lacking words-things difficult to describe or
explain-those who had been to the abyss did talk of it. Survivors
of other humanitarian crises have shown human beings to be
remarkably resilient. And, in the case of Ireland, there is no
basis for the insular notion that the Great Famine was "so deeply
tragic as to be too traumatic to recall".Ireland's Great Hunger
Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique
resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general
readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from
1845-1852 - the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century
Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make
available new research in Famine studies by internationally
established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory,
philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.
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