Great Irish Famine

Marguérite Corporaal is Professor of Anglophone Literature and Culture at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She has published on nineteenth-century Irish (diaspora) literature, regional fiction and the cultural legacies of Ireland’s Great Famine. Oona Frawley is Lecturer in English at Maynooth University, Ireland. Emily Mark-FitzGerald is a Lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin.

• Figure/caption listForeword: by Oona Frawley (University of Maynooth)Introduction: Famine Memory and its Industries: Genealogies of Representation by Emily Mark-FitzGerald (University College Dublin)Section I: Witness and Representation: Contemporaneous Depictions of Famine 1. The Bond that Knit the Peasant to the Soil: Rural Lore and Superstition in the Work of Daniel Macdonald by Niamh O’Sullivan (Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University)2. HB’s Famine Cartoons: Satirical Art in a Time of Catastrophe by Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast)3. The Famine Diaries and Sketches of John Plunket Joly by Ciaran Reilly (Maynooth University)4. Mortuary Spectacles: The Genealogy of Images of the Famine Irish Coffin Ships and Fever Sheds by Jason King (Independent scholar)Section II: Negotiating Form: Famine / Post-Famine Modalities and Media5. ‘Thus Crucifixes Became the Norm’: System, Affect, and Display in Post-Famine Catholicism by Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design)6. ‘This Most Humane Commerce’: Lace-making During the Famine by Melissa Fegan (University of Chester)7. Art and the Post-Famine Irish Diaspora in America by Fintan Cullen (University of Nottingham)8. The Greatest Famine Film Never Made by Bryce Evans (Liverpool Hope University)Section III: Legacy: Postmemory and Contemporary Visual Cultures 9. Tom Murphy and Druid Theatre’s Famines: Developing Images and Contexts, 1984 and 2012 by Shelley Troupe (Maynooth University)10. Overcoming Amnesia? Memorializing Finland’s ‘Great Hunger Years’ by Andrew G. Newby (Aarhus University)11. Evictions on the TV Screen: the Visual and Narrative Legacies of the Great Famine in The Hanging Gale by Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University)12. Gone to Amerikay: Famine Postmemory, the Irish Diaspora and the Graphic Novel by Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado (Independent scholar)References

‘This innovative and handsomely produced volume (containing thirty-nine visuals) challenges the idea of a great silence befalling post-Famine generations in Ireland and its diaspora, and suggests ways in which the dimensions of Famine memory might be evidenced through multiple vernacular sources.’ William Jenkins, Irish Historical Studies