Periodical famines : Irish memories in transatlantic news media, 1845-1919 /
Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 1845-1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the novels, poems, songs and films that it co...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Irish culture, memory, and place.
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Table of Contents:
- Section I. Transhistorical connections. Famine print patterns
- Famine and temporal stasis in a story paper : Young Ireland magazine, 1875-88
- Special correspondence on Ireland in the early 1880s : current and past famines in Margaret Dixon McDougall's "A tour through Ireland"
- Famine, fiction, and historicity in the Irish packet during the first years of the twentieth century
- Section II. Diasporic and transnational connections. "Famine, or farms" : McGee's illustrated weekly and the betterment of the poor laborer's lot, 1876-82
- Humiliating the nation : imperial oppression, gender, and hunger in Maud Gonne's periodical writings on Ireland and South Africa, 1898-1904
- Imperialism versus economic progress : The Irish world and American industrial liberator and Robert Ellis Thompson on famines in Ireland and India at the turn of the twentieth century
- Conclusion. Traveling Irish famine memories in transatlantic periodical culture.