Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Irish Famine

by Tom Hayden (Editor & Author)

Other authorsSeamus Heaney (Author), David Lloyd (Author), James Carroll (Author), Jimmy Breslin (Author), Seamus Deane (Author), Tim Pat Coogan (Author), Eavan Boland (Author), Peter Quinn (Author), Terry Golway (Author), John Waters (Author), Brendan Kennelly (Author)13 more, Nell McCafferty (Author), Paul Durcan (Author), Luke Gibbons (Author), Luke Dodd (Author), Helen Litton (Author), Gabriel Byrne (Author), Brian Lacey (Author), Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Author), James S. Donnelly Jr. (Author), Seán Kenny (Author), Ray Yeats (Author), Carolyn Ramsay (Author), Peggy O'Brian (Author)
Hardcover, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

941.5081.HAY

Publication

Dublin : Wolfhound Press

Description

In Irish Hunger, renowned Irish and Irish-American contributors-actors and activists, poets and journalists, politician and historian-offer moving commentaries and modern perspectives on the events of such tragic proportions that it continues to shape the Irish psyche on both sides of the Atlantic.

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0863275532 / 9780863275531

Local notes

Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology

Chapter One: Confronting the Ghosts
- John Waters: Confronting the Ghosts Of Our Past
- David Lloyd: The Memory of Hunger

Chapter Two: Remembering the Famine
- Luke Dodd: All Our Silences Begin To Make Sense (Interview with Tom Hayden)
- Helen Litton: The Famine in Schools

Chapter Three: A Culture Lost
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: A Ghostly Alhambra
- Brian Lacey: The People Lost and Forgot

Chapter Four: Identifying the Malady
- Eavan Boland: "Inscriptions"
- Jimmy Breslin: Leaves of Pain
- John Waters: Troubled People

Chapter Five: Where the Famine Led
- Gabriel Byrne: Famine Walk
- James S. Donnelly Jr.: The Great Famine and Its Interpreters

Chapter Six: Forgotten Lore
- Seamus Heaney: "Digging"
- Carolyn Ramsay: The Need to Feed
- Peter Quinn: In Search of the Banished Children

Chapter Seven: Continued Troubles
- Nell McCafferty: Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
- Tim Pat Coogan: The Lessons of the Famine for Today

Chapter Eight: Transgenerational Shame
- Seán Kenny: A Nightmare Revisited
- Ray Yeates: My Famine

Chapter Nine: Making History
- Seamus Deane: "Return"
- James Carroll: The Shawl of Grief
- Eavan Boland: Famine Roads

Chapter Ten: A Spreading Evil
- Paul Durcan: "What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger?"
- Terry Golway: Famine Roots
- Peter Quinn: Closets Full of Bones

Chapter Eleven: Our Dark Feathers
- Brendan Kennelly: My Dark Feathers
- Peggy O'Brian: An Irish Emigrant to Ireland

Chapter Twelve: Recognising the Victims
- Eavan Boland: "The Emigrant Irish"
- Luke Gibbons: Doing Justice to the Past
- Tom Hayden: The Famine of Feeling

Biographical Notes
Sources and Bibliography
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