Ireland’s Great Hunger

The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.

The papers collected in this volume are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. That conference, focused on the themes of representation and preservation, brought together forty-five scholars from around the world to discuss various aspects of the Famine and its aftermath. Following the conference, the complete An Gorta M-r collection of Quinnipiac's famine commemorative art was placed on display for the first time in the University's Alumni Hall. The An Gorta M-r collection is on permanent display in the University's Arnold Bernhard Library and in other buildings across the University's Mount Carmel campus. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.

Chapter 1 Contents
Chapter 2 Preface
Part 3 Part One: Famine Relief
Chapter 4 One: A Jersey Ship for Ireland
Chapter 5 Two: "We cannot but regret the great delay": Reflections on the Writings of the North Dublin Union Guardians during the Irish Famine
Part 6 Part Two: Writing the Famine
Chapter 7 Three: Great Hunger, Unspeakable Home: Landscape, Nature, and Original Sin in Lady Morgan'sThe Wild Irish Girl and William Carleton'sThe Black Prophet
Chapter 8 Four: Mapping the Imperial Body: Body Image and Representation in Famine Reporting
Chapter 9 Five: Representing the Famine, Writing the Self: Irish-Canadian Narratives
Chapter 10 Six: Writing the Famine, Healing the Future: Nuala O'Faolain'sMy Dream of You
Chapter 11 Seven: The Cyberculture of Grosse Île
Part 12 Part Three: Famine Rememberence
Chapter 13 Eight: The Famine, Irish-American Transition, and a Century of Intellectual and Cultural History
Chapter 14 Nine: Remembering Homelessness in the Great Irish Famine
Chapter 15 Ten: "She must have come steerage": The Great Famine in New England
Chapter 16 Eleven: Towards a Famine Art History: Invention, Reception, and Repetition from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth
Chapter 17 List of Contributors
Chapter 18 Index