Research Catalog

Title

Coming home : art & the great hunger / edited by Niamh O'Sullivan.

Publication

• Hamden, CT : Ireland's Great Hunger Museum/Quinnipiac University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• O'Sullivan, Niamh
• Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Description

218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

"The scale of the Great Irish Famine, and the horror of it, were unprecedented. It permeated everything, the traces of which remain to this day. But the visual dimensions of the loss of life and the erosions of language and culture remained unaddressed until Quinnipiac University opened Ireland's Great Hunger Museum in 2012, to considerable acclaim. As a largely invisible trauma whose consequences were intrinsic to the subsequent development of Ireland - no less than the United States - the museum collects and displays images and supporting documentation that address both the lacunae and interconnections in representations of the Great Hunger in Irish and diasporic history, culture, and memory. Now, mindful of the suffering of so many, a large number of whom nonetheless went on to contribute so much to America, Quinnipiac University brings its collection home, to share with the people of Ireland. Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger is an important act of cultural reconnection with Ireland's past and living diaspora, and is a major cultural, educational, and tourist event of local, national, and international interest."--Amazon.

Alternative Title

Art and the great hunger

Subject

• 1845-1852
• Art, Irish > Exhibitions
• Art > Ireland > Exhibitions
• Art
• Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852 > Exhibitions
• Ireland

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Exhibition catalog.
• Exhibition dates & venues: 8 March-30 June 2018 The Coach House, Dublin Castle ; 20 July-13 October 2018 Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen ; 18 January-16 March 2019 Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Derry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.

Contents

Preface / Michael D. Higgins -- Foreword / John L. Lahey -- "In the land of the dead": Art & the Great Hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan -- Feasting in a time of Famine: Dublin Castle & the Great Hunger / Ciarán Reilly -- "Frightful and fearful is the havoc around me": The Great Famine in Cork City & County / Laurence Geary -- Entering the Gray Zone: Hugh Dorian & "the years of famine" / Breandán Mac Suibhne -- Coming home: Art & the Great Hunger exhibition catalogue / Niamh O'Sullivan -- Endnotes -- Works cited -- Abbreviations -- Copyright -- Index -- Image credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Sponsors.

ISBN

• 0997837489
• 9780997837483

OCLC

• on1026691870
• 1026691870
• SCSB-9164789

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries