Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument - Couverture souple

Mark-FitzGerald, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781381690 ISBN 13 : 9781781381694

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument presents for the first time a visual cultural history of the 1840s Irish Famine, tracing its representation and commemoration from the 19th century up to its 150th anniversary in the 1990s and beyond. As the watershed event of 19th century Ireland, the Famine's political and social impacts profoundly shaped modern Ireland and the nations of its diaspora. Yet up until the 1990s, the memory of the Famine remained relatively muted and neglected, attracting little public attention. Thus the Famine commemorative boom of the mid-1990s was unprecedented in scale and output, with close to one hundred monuments newly constructed across Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. Drawing on an extensive global survey of recent community and national responses to the Famine's anniversary, and by outlining why these memories matter and to whom, this book argues how the phenomenon of Famine commemoration may be understood in the context of a growing memorial culture worldwide. It offers an innovative look at a well-known migration history whilst exploring how a now-global ethnic community redefines itself through acts of public memory and representation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald is a Lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781381690
• ISBN 13: 9781781381694
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
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