The Tombs of a departed race : illustrations of Ireland's great hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Niamh.

Contributor:

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

Series:

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady.

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--Ireland.

Famines.

Graphic arts.

History.

English newspapers.

Ireland.

Famines in art.

Hunger in art.

English newspapers--History--19th century.

Graphic arts--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.

Ireland--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

67 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Illustrations of Ireland's great hunger.

Place of Publication:

Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, 2014.

Contents:

Horrible suffering, utter penury

Crawling skeletons

Half-clad spectres

The mirror of truth

A mass of human putrifaction

The triumph of pestilence and the feast of death

The black hole of Calcutta

Buried in the deep.

Notes:

The subject matter of real human suffering did not lend itself easily to art. Ireland's Great Hunger--the worst demographic catastrophe of the nineteenth century--coincided with the invention of new mass-market periodicals. This essay considers the aesthetic, historical, technical and contextual roles of British newspaper illustration in interpreting the story of the Famine. Hiamh O'Sullivan examines how academically trained artists who had little experience of looking at unfiltered or distanced atrocity, became pictorial journalists and found new ways to image a trauma of unprecedented scale and horror.--back cover.

Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady

Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).

ISBN:

0990468631

9780990468639

OCLC:

897289249

Publisher Number:

99963240542