Commemorating the Irish Famine
Author | : Emily Mark-FitzGerald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781781381694 |
ISBN-13 | : 1781381690 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Commemorating the Irish Famine written by Emily Mark-FitzGerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present.