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 c...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Irish Culture, Memory, Place Series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.23548863 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I: Transhistorical Connections
- 1 Famine Print Patterns
- 2 Famine and Temporal Stasis in a Story Paper
- 3 Special Correspondence on Ireland in The Early 1880s
- 4 Famine, Fiction, and Historicity in The Irish Packetduringthe First Years of The Twentieth Century
- Section II: DiasPoric and Transnational Connections
- 5 "FAMINE, OR FARMS"McGee's Illustrated Weekly and the Betterment of the Poor Laborer's Lot, 1876-82
- 6 HUMILIATING THE NATIONImperial Oppression, Gender, and Hunger in Maud Gonne's Periodical Writings on Ireland and South Africa, 1898-1904
- 7 Imperialism Versus Economic Progress
- Conclusion Traveling Irish Famine Memories in Transatlantic Periodical Culture
- APPENDIX 1 : Margaret Dixon McDougall, "A Tour through Ireland," Daily Witness, April 16, 1881
- APPENDIX 2 : Margaret Dixon McDougall, "A Tour through Ireland," Daily Witness, July 27, 1881
- APPENDIX 3 :Robert Ellis Thompson, "Free Trade Slays Millions," Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, February 20, 1897
- APPENDIX 4 :Chronological List of Creative Works That Contain Famine
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author