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Voices Underfoot: Memory, Forgetting, and Oral Verbal Art (Famine Folios)
Angela Bourke
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Paperback. While Irish America remembers the Great Famine with anger or reverence, Ireland has worked hard to forget it. How did Irish people go about forgetting, and what kind of memories remained? Angela Bourke revisits the mentalite of her celebrated microhistory, The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story, to find out. Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 281 x 5. Weight in Grams: 256.
While many Irish-Americans identify the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century as the pivotal event in their ethnic history, most people in Ireland knew little about it as its 150th-anniversary approached. The Great Famine continued from 1845 at least until 1852, with lesser, locally devastating, famines occurring at intervals: most notable was the so-called 'Little Famine' of the late 1870s, which led to the formation of the Land League, and then to the Land War of the 1880s. Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, however, suggesting that the effects of mass hunger, destitution, and ... Read more
While many Irish-Americans identify the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century as the pivotal event in their ethnic history, most people in Ireland knew little about it as its 150th-anniversary approached. The Great Famine continued from 1845 at least until 1852, with lesser, locally devastating, famines occurring at intervals: most notable was the so-called 'Little Famine' of the late 1870s, which led to the formation of the Land League, and then to the Land War of the 1880s. Famine commemorations began in 1995 and ended in 1997, however, suggesting that the effects of mass hunger, destitution, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
44
Place of Publication
Hamden, United States
ISBN
9780997837407
SKU
V9780997837407
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About Angela Bourke
Angela Bourke is Professor Emerita in the UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, UCD
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