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Ultimate witnesses : the visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland / Niamh Ann Kelly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Famine folio seriesPublisher: Hamden, CT : Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Quinnipiac University Press 2017, c2017Description: 47 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780997837469
  • 9780997837469 (pbk.)
  • 0997837462 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Visual culture of death, burial, & mourning in famine Ireland
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9493638 23
LOC classification:
  • DA950.7 .K455 2017
Contents:
Pre-famine "assembly customs" and the merry wake -- "They were buried where they were found [...] death mowed a wide swath" : death and burial during the famine -- Famine graves, dark tourism, and shared memory -- Belated witnessing : representations of famine death and burial.
Summary: "The devastation of disease, the pace of death, and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance. Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of pre-Famine conventions around death, burial, and mourning, which drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic-pagan traditions. Later, Famine-era images and objects reveal some of the distressing modifications to mortuary and funerary practices during the Famine years. Since then, photographic archives, artworks, monuments, memorial parks, cemetaries, and unmarked burial grounds provide spaces for remembrance across the landscape of Ireland, where visitor engagement is informed by competing forces of historical and touristic practices. This folio encompasses a cross section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead, who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that terrible time"--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 704.9493638 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 84524

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-45).

Pre-famine "assembly customs" and the merry wake -- "They were buried where they were found [...] death mowed a wide swath" : death and burial during the famine -- Famine graves, dark tourism, and shared memory -- Belated witnessing : representations of famine death and burial.

"The devastation of disease, the pace of death, and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance. Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of pre-Famine conventions around death, burial, and mourning, which drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic-pagan traditions. Later, Famine-era images and objects reveal some of the distressing modifications to mortuary and funerary practices during the Famine years. Since then, photographic archives, artworks, monuments, memorial parks, cemetaries, and unmarked burial grounds provide spaces for remembrance across the landscape of Ireland, where visitor engagement is informed by competing forces of historical and touristic practices. This folio encompasses a cross section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead, who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that terrible time"--Back cover.

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