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The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity

By Stuart McLean

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780804766012
DOI
10.1515/9780804766012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25106120 bytes)
Pages
248\244
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:18:41

Description

The Event and its Terrors undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish history—the Great Famine of the 1840s—and of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, past and present, it considers the emergence of the Famine as an object of historical knowledge and controversy with reference both to the experience of modernity and to the production of academic and nationalist histories in colonial and post-independence Ireland. In doing so, it explores the possibility of alternative modes of engagement with the past via contemporary eyewitness accounts, oral histories, literature, folklore, and present-day commemorative events.

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