Irish hunger
Subtitle: personal reflections on the legacy of the famine
By: edited by Tom Hayden.
Contributors: Hayden, Tom, 1939-; Heaney, Seamus, 1939-
Publisher: Wolfhound Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.; Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Irish hunger is a unique collection of highly personal essays, reflections and poems from Irish and Irish American contributors. Complemented by a historical chronology, and a series of eyewitness accounts and commentaries from contemporary documents -- newspapers, letters and diaries -- this book urges us to heal 'a wound on the Irish psyche that still aches.'" --Dust jacket.
Notes: Subtitle on dustjacket: Over twenty Irish and American contributors Seamus Heaney ... [et al].

Includes bibliog.