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Dublin and the Great Irish Famine

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An illumination of how nineteenth-century Dublin experienced and endured the Great Irish Famine.   Dublin did not escape Ireland’s mid-nineteenth-century Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, and the city witnessed an influx of rural poor seeking refuge and relief. However, popular and scholarly narratives of the Famine have largely overlooked Dublin. This collection of essays breaks new ground in reconsidering the Famine and its historiography by focusing solely on Dublin and its inhabitants. The thirteen contributors provide an interdisciplinary range of perspectives on such diverse topics as business life and industry in Dublin, the impact of the Famine on the city’s charity and welfare landscapes, suicide and trauma during this time of acute crisis, the experiences of marginalized populations in prisons and hospitals, and cultural representations of Famine-era Dublin. The book examines both direct and indirect impacts of the Famine on the city, noting promising future areas of research, and arguing for the reinvigoration of urban histories with Famine studies. Dublin and the Great Irish Famine illuminates an overlooked but essential dimension of Irish history.

Author Biography:

Ciaran McCabe is a historian of poverty and welfare in nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain, and author of Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland (2018). He teaches in the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University. Ciaran Reilly is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth century Irish history at the Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University. He is author of The Irish Land Agent: The Case of King's County, 1830-1860 and Strokestown and the Great Famine. Emily Mark-FitzGerald is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin, where she specialises in the visual culture of the Irish famine, poverty and migration. Her previous books include Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument (2013) and the co-edited The GreatIrish Famine: Visual and Material Culture (2018).
Release date Australia
September 30th, 2022
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributor
  • Edited by Emily Mark-FitzGerald
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9781910820773
Product ID
36001605

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