Commemorating the Irish Famine – Memory and the Monument Mark–fitzgerald

Commemorating the Irish FamineMemory and the Monument\nAuthor(s): Emily Mark-FitzGerald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781781381694, 978-1781381694\nSynopsis\nCommemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument presents for the first time a visual cultural history of the 1840s Irish Famine, tracing its representation and commemoration from the 19th century up to its 150th anniversary in the 1990s and beyond.\n\nAs the watershed event of 19th century Ireland, the Famines political and social impacts profoundly shaped modern Ireland and the nations of its diaspora. Yet up until the 1990s, the memory of the Famine remained relatively muted and neglected, attracting little public attention. Thus the Famine commemorative boom of the mid-1990s was unprecedented in scale and output, with close to one hundred monuments newly constructed across Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada and Austral.