Research Catalog

Title

Black roads : the famine in Irish literature / Robert Smart.

Author

Smart, Robert Augustin, 1952-

Publication

Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

Description

43 pages : illustrations (some colored), portraits; 28 cm

Summary

The Great Hunger was the most gothic event in Ireland's history and has haunted Irish literature ever since. Both Irish Gothic literature and the work of the Irish modernists resonate with the cultural memory of the suffering of millions. In the struggle to resist the diminishment of this tragedy, Irish Gothic writers preserved the memory of the Famine when a general silence prevailed among Victorial historians and novelists. This essay traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carleton's "The Black Prophet" to more contemporary work by authors including Patrick McCabe, Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, as well as playwrights such as Tom Murphy, Conor McPherson and Marina Carr, and argues that all post-Famine Irish literature is about the Famine. --Page [4] of cover.

Series Statement

Famine folios

Uniform Title

Famine folio series.

Alternative Title

Famine in Irish literature

Subjects

• Ireland
• Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
• Hunger in literature
• Famines > Ireland
• Famines in literature
• Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
• English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism
• Ireland > History > 19th century
• 1800 - 1899
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39).

Contents

Introduction -- Black roads -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JAX B-24464

ISBN

• 9780990468646
• 099046864X

LCCN

2015462275

OCLC

927364157

Author

Smart, Robert Augustin, 1952-

Title

Black roads : the famine in Irish literature / Robert Smart.

Publisher

Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Famine folios

Famine folio series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39).

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Added Author

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

Research Call Number

JAX B-24464