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Commemorating the Irish Famine - Memory and the Monument (Paperback)
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Commemorating the Irish Famine - Memory and the Monument (Paperback)
Series: Reappraisals in Irish History, 3
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Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument presents
for the first time a visual cultural history of the 1840s Irish
Famine, tracing its representation and commemoration from the 19th
century up to its 150th anniversary in the 1990s and beyond. As the
watershed event of 19th century Ireland, the Famine's political and
social impacts profoundly shaped modern Ireland and the nations of
its diaspora. Yet up until the 1990s, the memory of the Famine
remained relatively muted and neglected, attracting little public
attention. Thus the Famine commemorative boom of the mid-1990s was
unprecedented in scale and output, with close to one hundred
monuments newly constructed across Ireland, Britain, the United
States, Canada and Australia. Drawing on an extensive global survey
of recent community and national responses to the Famine's
anniversary, and by outlining why these memories matter and to
whom, this book argues how the phenomenon of Famine commemoration
may be understood in the context of a growing memorial culture
worldwide. It offers an innovative look at a well-known migration
history whilst exploring how a now-global ethnic community
redefines itself through acts of public memory and representation.
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