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1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in the great hunger
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Studies in the great hunger (Quinnipiac University)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index. |
| Contents |
A Jersey ship for Ireland / Harvey Strum -- "We cannot but regret the great delay": reflections on the writings of the North Dublin Union Guardians during the famine / Margaret Preston -- Great hunger, unspeakable home: landscape, nature and original sin in Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish girl and William Carleton's The Black prophet / Jefferson Holdridge -- Mapping the imperial body: body image and representation in famine reporting / Robert Smart -- Representing the famine, writing the self: Irish-Canadian narrative / Michael Kenneally -- Writing the famine, healing the future: Nuala O'Faolain's My dream of you / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt -- The cyberculture of Grosse Île / Rhona Richman Kenneally -- The famine, Irish-American transition, and a century of intellectual and cultural history / Mary C. Kelly -- Remembering homelessness in the Great Irish Famine / Niamh Ann Kelly -- "She must have come steerage": the Great Famine in New England folk memory / E. Moore Quinn -- Towards a famine art history: invention, reception, and repetition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth / Emily Mark-FitzGerald. |
| Summary |
The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Famine in Ireland (Ireland : 1845-1852) |
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Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Congresses.
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Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Famines. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Geschichte 1840-1850 |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Valone, David A.
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Quinnipiac University.
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| Added Title |
Relief, representation, and remembrance |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ireland's great hunger. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2002-©2010 9780761848998 (DLC) 2002075272 (OCoLC)50023610 |
| ISBN |
9780761849001 (electronic book) |
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0761849009 (electronic book) |
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