Writing the Irish Famine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8079214 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Morash, Christopher Morash (0000-0003-1363-8137, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Writing the Irish famine (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182795.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W565915418 |
| Open Library | OL1121669M |
| ISBN | 9780198182795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
In the late 1840s, more than one million Irish men and women died of starvation and disease, and a further two million emigrated in one of the worst European sustenance crises of modern times. Yet a general feeling persists that the Irish Famine eluded satisfactory representation. Writing the Famine examines literary texts by writers such as William Carleton. Anthony Trollope, James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel, and Samuel Ferguson, and reveals how they interact with histories, sermons, economic treatises to construct a narrative of the most important and elusive events in Irish history. In this strikingly original and compelling contribution to Irish culture studies, Christopher Moras explores the concept of the Famine as a moment of absence. He argues the event constitutes an unspeakable moment in attempts to write the past - a point at which the great Victorian metanarratives of historical change collapse. Aligning itself with new historical literary criticism, Writing the Famine examines the attempts of a wide range of nineteenth-century writing to ensure the memorialization of an event which seems to resist representation
Archaeology · Art · Famine · Genealogy · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Sustenance · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · 1845-1852 · 19th century · Famine, 1845-1852 · Famines · Historiography · ireland
Memory and History in Northern Ireland
“Slippy with Rot”
Recalling the Hunger Winter
A Modest Proposal
Letting the Past Be Past
The Famine
Western plague literature, the Irish Famine and Anthony Trollope’s Castle Richmond
To Ireland in the end times
Nationalism and religion in Ireland
Famine in the Landscape
Cathecting the Natural
Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia
Identities and Livelihoods
The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland
A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
Famine and ‘hongersnood’ as transnational memory
Pellagra and Nutrition Policy Lessons from the Great Irish Famine to the New South Africa
Rites of passage
Representing the “Hungry Forties” in Image and Verse
From golden hills to sycamore trees
Commemorating the Irish Famine
Creating and destroying ‘the man who does not exist’
Round towers and square holes
Mapped Landscapes
Memory and John Mitchel's appropriation of the slave narrative
Memories of the Great Famine and Ethnic Identity in Novels by Victorian Irish Women Writers
"The Memories of "The Dead
Young Ireland, Arthur Griffith, and Republican Ideology
Educate that holy hatred
The Revisionist Debate in Ireland
Two Thomases
It is new-strung and shan't be heard
Death and the dinner party
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.21 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |