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The great Irish famine : visual and material cultures / Marguérite Corporaal, Oona Frawley, Emily Mark-FitzGerald.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Ireland--History.
- Arts and society.
- Famines in mass media.
- Visual communication--Ireland--History.
- Visual communication.
- Popular culture--Ireland--History.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Influence.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 275 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- 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 p. 17 / Niamh O'Sullivan
- 2 HB's Famine Cartoons: Satirical Art in a Time of Catastrophe p. 35 / Peter Gray
- 3 The Famine Diaries and Sketches of John Plunket Joly p. 53 / Ciarán Reilly
- 4 Mortuary Spectacles: The Genealogy of Images of the Famine Irish Coffin Ships and Fever Sheds p. 68 / Jason King
- II Negotiating Form: Famine/Post-Famine Modalities and Media
- 5 'Thus Crucifixes Became the Norm': System, Affect and Display in Post-Famine Catholicism p. 89 / Lisa Godson
- 6 'This Most Humane Commerce': Lacemaking during the Famine p. 110 / Melissa Fegan
- 7 Art and the Post-Famine Irish Diaspora in America p. 128 / Fintan Cullen
- 8 The Greatest Famine Film Never Made p. 144 / Bryce Evans
- III Legacy: Postmemory and Contemporary Visual Cultures
- 9 Tom Murphy and Druid Theatre's Famines: Developing Images and Contexts, 1984 and 2012 p. 165 / Shelley Troupe
- 10 Overcoming Amnesia? Memorializing Finland's 'Great Hunger Years' p. 183 / Andrew G. Newby
- 11 Evictions on the TV Screen: The Visual and Narrative Legacies of the Great Famine in The Hanging Gale p. 207 / Marguérite Corporaal
- 12 Gone to Amerikay: Famine Postmemory, the Irish Diaspora and the Graphic Novel p. 221 / Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado.
- ISBN:
- 9781786941602
- 1786941600
- 9781786941596
- 1786941597
- OCLC:
- 1032711505
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