Ireland's great hunger: silence, memory, and commemoration

Abstract

Chapter 1 List of Table and Figures Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Silence: Chapter 6 Famine Lifelines: The Transatlantic Letters of James Prendergast Chapter 7 The Unborn and Unburied Dead: The Rhetoric of Ireland's An Gort Mor Chapter 8 Irish Immigrants and African Americans: Tangled Roots Chapter 9 An Agenda for Researching the Famine Experience of Kilglass Parish, County Roscommon Chapter 10 W.B. Yeats's Politics of Proximity: or the Famine's Absence in Yeats's Poetry Chapter 11 Silent Hunger: The Psychological Impact of the Great Hunger Chapter 12 Memory: Chapter 13 Seamus Heaney's At a Potato Digging Revisited Chapter 14 Easing Integration: The Impact of the Great Famine on the American South Chapter 15 Performing the Famine: A Look at Contemporary Irish Dramatists Chapter 16 The Great Hunger: Act of God or Acts of Man? Chapter 17 I will sone be home: Maggie Maher, Emily Dickinson, and an Irish Trunk Full of Poems Chapter 18 Commemoration: Chapter 19 Famine Commemorations: Visual Dialogues, Visual Silences Chapter 20 Le Memorial: An Irish Memorial at Grosse Ile in Quebec Chapter 21 (De)Constructing the Irish Famine Memorial in Contemporary Quebec Chapter 22 Reflections on the Grosse Ile Memorial in Contemporary Quebec: A Response Chapter 23 The MacGilligan Family and the Great Hunger: Collaborative Strategies in an Irish History Course Chapter 24 Designing the New York State Great Irish Famine Curriculum Guide Chapter 25 List of Contributors