The Event and Its Terrors

Ireland, Famine, Modernity

Bibliographic Data

ID8102886
AuthorsStuart Mclean (0000-0002-7035-378X, corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-07-09
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEvent and Its Terrors (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780804766012
OpenAlexW4207075921
Open LibraryOL46592863M
ISBN9780804766012
LanguageEN
Citations received15

The Event and its Terrors undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish history—the Great Famine of the 1840s—and of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, past and present, it considers the emergence of the Famine as an object of historical knowledge and controversy with reference both to the experience of modernity and to the production of academic and nationalist histories in colonial and post-independence Ireland. In doing so, it explores the possibility of alternative modes of engagement with the past via contemporary eyewitness accounts, oral histories, literature, folklore, and present-day commemorative events

Archaeology · Colonialism · Event (particle physics · Famine · Folklore · Independence (probability theory · Irish · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · 1845-1852 · Famines · Historiography · ireland

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