Title: Commemorating the Irish Famine : memory and the monument /
Authors: Mark-FitzGerald, Emily,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social Conditions history; History, 19th Century; Cross-Cultural Comparision.; Starvation history; Memorialization Cross-cultural studies.; Memorials Cross-cultural studies.; Memorials Ireland.; Collective memory Cross-cultural studies.; Ireland; Ireland History; Ireland Social conditions; Ireland
Abstract: 'Commemorating the Irish Famine' explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present.
Contents: Introduction -- Visualizing the famine: nineteenth-century image, reception and legacy -- Commemorating the Famine: 1940s-1990s -- Constructing famine spaces in Ireland -- Community famine commemoration in Northern Ireland and the diaspora -- Major famine memorials -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Famine monuments-a global survey.