GREAT IRISH FAMINE: Visual and Material Culture

The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the relationship of the Famine and related experiences (hunger, migration, eviction, poverty, institutions and social memory) to visual and material cultures. This book aims to explore how the diaspora affected future painting, engraving, photography, devotional objects, ritual, drama, film, television, and graphic novels and the multiple impacts and experiences of the Famine over almost two centuries. "A fresh and stimulating collection" - Professor Cormac O'Grada, these 12 fine essays resonate with current developments in Irish cultural history, commemoration and memory, and advances new approaches to studies of memory and materiality. 288 page paperback.