Monuments and memorials of the great famine / Catherine Marshall.
By: Marshall, Catherine [author]
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Contributor(s): O'Sullivan, Niamh [editor] | Brady, Grace [editor] | Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
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BookSeries: Famine folio series: Publisher: Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 35 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780990468608 (paperback); 0990468607.Subject(s): Famines -- Ireland | Famines in art | Hunger in art | Memorials -- Ireland | Memorialization -- Cross-cultural studies | Memorials -- Cross-cultural studies | Collective memory -- Cross-cultural studies | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 | Ireland -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 941.5081 Summary: "Commemorative projects, born out of conflicting memories, can be problematic. Catherine Marshall challenges the coarsening of history by the construction of commemorative monuments that are thought to provide closure over the events they mark. In this pamphlet, she explores how imaginative artists help us to work into and through the past. Through the vitality of her artists, at home and abroad, Ireland and the diaspora have attempted to come to terms with some of the inherited legacies of the Great Hunger, the most devastating event in modern Irish history." -- Back cover.
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Commemorative projects, born out of conflicting memories, can be problematic. Catherine Marshall challenges the coarsening of history by the construction of commemorative monuments that are thought to provide closure over the events that they mark. She explores how imaginative artists help us to work into and through the past. Through the vitality of her artists, at home and abroad, Ireland and the diaspora have attempted to come to terms with some of the inherited legacies of the Great Hunger, the most devastating event in modern Irish history.
Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady.
Includes bibliographical references (page 33).
"Commemorative projects, born out of conflicting memories, can be problematic. Catherine Marshall challenges the coarsening of history by the construction of commemorative monuments that are thought to provide closure over the events they mark. In this pamphlet, she explores how imaginative artists help us to work into and through the past. Through the vitality of her artists, at home and abroad, Ireland and the diaspora have attempted to come to terms with some of the inherited legacies of the Great Hunger, the most devastating event in modern Irish history." -- Back cover.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Monuments and Memorials of the Great Famine
- Endnotes
- Works Cited
- Images
- About the Author