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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.
Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants
experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed
an influx of the rural poor seeking refuge and relief. However,
Dublin has remained largely neglected in popular and scholarly
narratives of the Famine. This collection of essays breaks new
ground and reconsiders the Famine and its historiography by
locating Dublin city and its inhabitants at the centre of its
focus. This volume, containing work by established and emerging
scholars, presents some of the most recent research into life in
Dublin during this period of unprecedented distress. As such, it
constitutes the most detailed analysis to date of the impact of the
Great Famine on Dublin and its inhabitants, and is the first
monograph wholly devotedto this subject. This pioneering volume
offers an interdisciplinary approach and a range of perspectives
from its thirteen contributors. Featuring a foreword by Cormac O
Grada and including a comprehensive overview of Famine scholarship
on Dublin to date, its twelve additional essays cover such diverse
topics as business life and industry in the city, the impact of the
Famine on Dublin's charity and welfare landscapes, suicide and
trauma at this time of acute crisis, experiences of the
marginalised within prisons and hospitals, and cultural
representations of Famine-era Dublin. It examines both direct and
indirect impacts of the Famine on the city, noting promising future
areas of research, and arguing for the reinvigoration of urban
histories with Famine studies. This volume of essays will appeal to
students, scholars and general enthusiasts of 19th-century Irish
history, especially those interested in the history of the Great
Famine and of Dublin. Generously illustrated, it illuminates an
overlooked but essential dimension of Irish history.
The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish
culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research
has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the
relationship of the Famine and related experiences (hunger,
migration, eviction, poverty, institutions and social memory) to
visual and material cultures. This book aims to explore how the
material and visual cultures of Ireland and its diaspora (including
painting, engraving, photography, devotional objects, ritual,
drama, film, television, and graphic novels) intersect with the
multiple impacts and experiences of the Famine. In tracing the
Famine's impact in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and across the
diaspora over almost two centuries, it adopts transgenerational as
well as transnational approaches to the subject of cultural memory.
Interest in the Famine has increased rather than declined since its
sesquicentenary, acquiring new relevance in the wake of Ireland's
recent economic collapse and the international contemporary refugee
crisis, with which frequent parallels have been drawn. This book
arrives in the midst of the Decade of Centenaries, the sequence of
key commemorations in Ireland and Northern Ireland that has
attracted widespread international public attention. As such, its
essays resonate with current developments in Irish cultural
history, commemoration and memory, and advances new approaches to
studies of memory and materiality.
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