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Global legacies of the great Irish famine : transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives / [edited by] Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen, and Ruud van den Beuken.

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Global legacies of the great Irish famine : transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives / [edited by] Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen, and Ruud van den Beuken.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

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Additional Authors
Corporaal, Marguérite
Description
345 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Reimagining Ireland ; 60
Uniform Title
Reimagining Ireland; v. 60.
Subject
  • Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
  • 1800 - 1899
  • Social Conditions > history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Starvation > history
  • Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Famines
  • Social history
  • Ireland
  • Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
  • Ireland > Social conditions > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen -- The 'Affective Gap' and recent histories of Ireland's Great Famine / Margaret Kelleher -- 'Rather peculiar claims upon our sympathies': Britain and famine in Finland, 1856-1868 / Andrew G. Newby -- Cataclysm as a catalyst for language shift / Peter Slomanson -- Anthony Trollope's famine economics / Gordon Bigelow -- 'Where all ladders start': famine memories in Yeats's Countess Cathleen / Chris Morashh -- Reconstructing realities: exploring the human experience of the Great Famine through archaeology / Jonny Geber -- Waking the bones: the return of the famine dead in contemporary Irish literature / Melissa Fegan -- Geographic scale and the Great Famine / Declan Curran -- No spatial watershed: religious geographies of Ireland pre- and post-famine / Paul S. Ell, Niall Cunningham and Ian N. Gregory -- Philanthropy, diplomacy and nationalism: the United States and the Great Famine / David Sim -- The remembrance of Irish famine migrants in the fever sheds of Montreal / Jason King -- Contemporary links between Canadian and Irish famine commemoration / Mark G. McGowan -- Afterword: The afterlife of the untimely dead / David Lloyd.
ISBN
  • 9783034309035 (alk. paper)
  • 3034309031 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2014021255
OCLC
881064738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library