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The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity

The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity

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Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

AnthropologyAgricultureIrish History

ISBN10: 0804744408
ISBN13: 9780804744409
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 9 2004
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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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