Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine ― Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Corporaal, Cusack, Janssen, and van den Beuken present readers with a curated collection of academic articles and essays examining historical and ongoing impacts of Ireland’s Great Famine 150 years later. The text is organized in five sections around the general subject headings of rewriting history, rereading the classic literature, commemorating the dead, spacing the famine, and Atlantic connections. The collection as a whole argues that the Great Famine is a key event in the cultural memory of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. The editors are all faculty members of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Marguerite Corporaal is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the principal investigator for the ERC-funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921. With Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen, she co-edited Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology. Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920 (2012).
Christopher Cusack is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on literary memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1892 to 1921.
Lindsay Janssen is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she is writing a thesis on cultural memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1871 to 1891.
Ruud van den Beuken is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on memory, modernity and (inter)nationalist identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre from 1928 to 1957.