The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity

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.

Author: Stuart McLean
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 07/09/2004
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.44w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780804744393

About the Author
Stuart McLean is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.