Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing

Marguérite Corporaal is Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She was PI of Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921), is a NWO-VICI grant recipient for her project Redefining the Region (2019-24), and PI of Heritages of Hunger, a Dutch research council-funded NWO-NWA project (2019-24). She is the author of Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847–70 (2017).   Dr. Jason King is Academic Coordinator of the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and a member of the Government of Ireland National Famine Commemoration Committee. His recent publications with Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran include More Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger  Heroes of Ireland’s Great Hunger (2022, 2021) and Irish Famine Migration Narratives: Eyewitness Testimonies, vol II, The History of the Irish Famine (2019).  Peter D. O’Neill is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. With David Lloyd, he co-edited an essay collection, The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas, (Palgrave Macmillan; 2009). His award-winning book, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, was published in paperback in 2019.

• Section I: Irish American Women’s Activism (1880-1920).- 1. Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League.- 2. Mother Jones, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Famine Memory.- 3. Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee, American Feminist.- Section II:  Famine Memory and Irish American Women’s Writing.- 4. From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: the Transportability of Famine memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey and Alice Nolan.- 5. Margaret Dixon McDougall’s The Days of a Life (1883); an Irish-Canadian Perspective of the Repetitive Nature of Irish History.-  Section III: The Global Famine Diaspora: Mary Anne Sadlier and Her Contemporary Female Authors.- 6. Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant Women Writers’ Perceptions of the Famine Migration and Resettlement in British North America.- 7. Sentimentally Irish, Racially White: The Balancing Act of Irish-American Identity in the Novels of Sadlier and Meany.