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The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger
- Title
- The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan.
- Author
- O'Sullivan, Niamh.
- Publication
- Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
- Description
- 67 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Alternative Title
- Illustrations of Ireland's great hunger.
- Subjects
- Graphic arts
- English newspapers
- Ireland
- Hunger in art
- Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
- 1800 - 1899
- Famines in art
- Great Britain
- English newspapers > History > 19th century
- Ireland > History > 19th century
- Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
- Graphic arts > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Famines > Ireland
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- The subject matter of real human suffering did not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger--the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century--coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. This essay considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. Hiamh O'Sullivan examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity, became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.--back cover.
- Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).
- Contents
- Horrible suffering, utter penury -- Crawling skeletons -- Half-clad spectres -- The mirror of truth -- A mass of human putrifaction -- The triumph of pestilence and the feast of death -- The black hole of Calcutta -- Buried in the deep.
- Call Number
- JQF 15-508
- ISBN
- 9780990468639
- 0990468631
- LCCN
- 2014472829
- OCLC
- 897289249
- Author
- O'Sullivan, Niamh.
- Title
- The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan.
- Imprint
- Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, 2014.
- Series
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).
- Chronological Term
- 1800 - 1899
- Added Author
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 15-508