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Available
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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
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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
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