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...
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 soci...
Ireland's Great Famine or 'an Gorta Mor' (1845-51) and Ukraine's 'Holodomor' (1932-33) occupy central places in the national historiographies of their respective countries. Acknowledging that questions of collective memory have become a central issue in cultural studies, this volume inquires into the role of historical experiences of hunger and deprivation within the emerging national identities and national historical narratives of Ireland and Ukraine. In the Irish case, a solid body of research has been compiled over the last 150 years, while Ukraine's Holodomor, by contrast, was...
Ireland's Great Famine or 'an Gorta Mor' (1845-51) and Ukraine's 'Holodomor' (1932-33) occupy central places in the national historiographies of th...
