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Ultimate witnesses : the visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland
- Title
- Ultimate witnesses : the visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland / Niamh Ann Kelly
- Author
- Kelly, Niamh Ann
- Publication
- Hamden, CT : Ireland's Great Hunger Museum : Quinnipiac University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 47 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- "The devastation of disease, the pace of death, and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance. Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of pre-Famine conventions around death, burial, and mourning, which drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic-pagan traditions. Later, Famine-era images and objects reveal some of the distressing modifications to mortuary and funerary practices during the Famine years. Since then, photographic archives, artworks, monuments, memorial parks, cemetaries, and unmarked burial grounds provide spaces for remembrance across the landscape of Ireland, where visitor engagement is informed by competing forces of historical and touristic practices. This folio encompasses a cross section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead, who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that terrible time"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Famine folio series
- Uniform Title
- Famine folio series.
- Alternative Title
- Visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-45).
- Contents
- Pre-famine "assembly customs" and the merry wake -- "They were buried where they were found [...] death mowed a wide swath" : death and burial during the famine -- Famine graves, dark tourism, and shared memory -- Belated witnessing : representations of famine death and burial.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-221
- ISBN
- 9780997837469
- 0997837462
- LCCN
- 2017479904
- OCLC
- 1014158975
- Author
- Kelly, Niamh Ann, author.
- Title
- Ultimate witnesses : the visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland / Niamh Ann Kelly
- Publisher
- Hamden, CT : Ireland's Great Hunger Museum : Quinnipiac University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Famine folio seriesFamine folio series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-45).
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-221