Research Catalog

Title

Irish hunger and migration : myth, memory and memorialization / Patrick Fitzgerald, Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran [editors].

Publication

West Haven, Connecticut : Quinnipiac University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fitzgerald, Patrick, 1964-
• Kinealy, Christine.
• Moran, Gerard.

Description

viii, 198 pages : illustrations, map; 28 cm

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Emigration and immigration
• Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852 > Congresses
• Ireland > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Irlande > Histoire > 1845-1852 (Grande Famine) > Congrès
• Irlande > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès
• Ireland

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• These essays were part of the proceedings of the 20th meeting of the Ulster American Heritage Symposium, hosted in June 2014, by Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and by the T.R.R. Cobb House Museum and the University of Georgia at Athens. The contributors to this volume are, Marguerite Corporaal, Patrick Fitzgerald, David Gleeson, Christine Kinealy, Jason King, Brian Lambkin, Mark McGowan, Gerard Moran, Kay Muhr, Maureen Murphy, Andrew Newby, Nini Rodgers, Catherine Shannon and Damian Shiels.
• Quinnipiac University Faculty: Christine Kinealy.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments / Christine Kinealy -- Introduction / Patrick Fitzgerald, Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran, eds. -- Leaving for St. Christopher : early Irish migration to the New World 1630-60 / Nini Rodgers -- Irish hunger, migration and denomination, 1550-1850 / Patrick Fitzgerald -- Famine and place names in Ireland / Kay Muhr -- "This great agony of the Empire" : The Great Famine in Ulster / Christine Kinealy -- A tale of two famines ; famine memory in Nova Scotia, Canada / Mark G. McGowan -- The wreck of the brig "St. John" and its commemoration, 1849-2014 / Catherine B. Shannon -- Memories of the Great Famine in Irish North-American fiction, 1855-70 / Marguerite Corporaal -- French-Canadian and Irish memories of Montreal's famine migration in 1847 / Jason King -- The Society of Friends and famine relief in Ireland and Finland, c. 1845-57 / Andrew G. Newby -- From Great Famine to forgotten famine : the crisis of 1879-81 / Gerard Moran -- "Remember that your blood is pure Scotch-Irish" : Ulster Americans and the Confederate States of America / David T. Gleeson -- The long arm of war : exploring the 19th-century Ulster emigrant experience through American Civil War pension files / Damian Shiels -- The Irish hunger memorial at Battery Park City : Mayo as metaphor / Maureen Murphy -- "Dealing with the Past" in Northern Ireland : famine, diaspora and the influence of A.T.Q. Stewart / Brian Lambkin -- List of Illustrations -- Contributor biographies -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780990945406
• 0990945405

LCCN

2015464095

OCLC

• ocn921181308
• 921181308
• SCSB-8802274

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library