Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine

A key event in Irish cultural memory, the Great Famine still crops up regularly in public discourse within Ireland and among the Irish diaspora. This volume, containing essays by distinguished scholars such as Peter Gray, Margaret Kelleher and Chris Morash, offers new and multidisciplinary perspectives on the Famine.

The 150th anniversary of Ireland's Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, interest in the Irish Famine - both scholarly and popular - has soared once again. A key event in Irish cultural memory, the crisis still crops up regularly in public discourse within Ireland and among the Irish diaspora. This volume, containing essays by distinguished scholars such as Peter Gray, Margaret Kelleher and Chris Morash, offers new perspectives on the Famine and its contexts. Addressing the challenges and opportunities for Irish Famine studies today, the book presents a stimulating dialogue between a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the Famine and its legacies.

Contents: Margaret Kelleher: The «Affective Gap» and Recent Histories of Ireland's Great Famine - Peter Gray: The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c. 1860-1914 - Andrew Newby: «Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies»: Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856-1868 - Peter Slomanson: Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift - Gordon Bigelow: Anthony Trollope's Famine Economics - Chris Morash: «Where All Ladders Start»: Famine Memories in Yeats's Countess Cathleen - Jonny Geber: Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Irish Famine through Archaeology - Melissa Fegan: Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature - Declan Curran: Geographic Scale and the Great Irish Famine - Paul S. Ell/Niall Cunningham/Ian N. Gregory: No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine - David Sim: Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism: The United States and the Great Famine - Jason King: The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal - Mark G. Mcgowan: Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration.