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Ireland´s Great Hunger: Silence, Memory, and Commemoration
David A. Valone (Ed.)
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Description for Ireland´s Great Hunger: Silence, Memory, and Commemoration
Paperback. Editor(s): Kinealy, Christine; Valone, David A. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
This volume of essays is based upon papers that were delivered at Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Conference in September 2000. It considers the Great Hunger both as a historical moment that had a devastating and enduring impact on Ireland, and as a social, political, and demographic process that shaped the culture and people of both Ireland and North America. The chapters are grouped thematically into three parts. The first, Silence, takes as its point of departure the ways in which the Great Hunger created silences, both at the time of the Famine and in the subsequent historical memory of the ... Read more
This volume of essays is based upon papers that were delivered at Quinnipiac University's Great Hunger Conference in September 2000. It considers the Great Hunger both as a historical moment that had a devastating and enduring impact on Ireland, and as a social, political, and demographic process that shaped the culture and people of both Ireland and North America. The chapters are grouped thematically into three parts. The first, Silence, takes as its point of departure the ways in which the Great Hunger created silences, both at the time of the Famine and in the subsequent historical memory of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761823452
SKU
V9780761823452
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About David A. Valone (Ed.)
David A. Valone has served as an Assistant Professor of history and is Director of freshman academic programs at Quinnipiac University. He has authored works on the educational, linguistic and medical history of Britain, Ireland, and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Christine Kinealy is a reader in history at the University of Central Lancaster. She ... Read more
Reviews for Ireland´s Great Hunger: Silence, Memory, and Commemoration
There is a great deal of diversity of viewpoints and perspectives in the essays...'Ireland's Great Hunger' should be of interest to both academic and general readers.
Curtis W. Wood, Jr., Western Carolina University
History
Gracefully written and informative...
Emily Dickinson International Society
...this collection provides an engaging appraisal of the full legacy of the famine. ... Read more
Curtis W. Wood, Jr., Western Carolina University
History
Gracefully written and informative...
Emily Dickinson International Society
...this collection provides an engaging appraisal of the full legacy of the famine. ... Read more