TY  - BOOK
AU  - TAWN,O'DELL
ED  - Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
TI  - Black roads: the famine in Irish literature 
T2  - Famine folios
SN  - 071162007992
AV  - PR8722.F33 S63 2015
U1  - 820.9/358415081 23
PY  - 2001/// ]
CY  - NEW YORK ,HUDSON STREETS
PB  - PENGUINE BOOLS LTD
KW  - English literature
KW  - Irish authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Famines
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Famines in literature
KW  - Hunger in literature
KW  - History
KW  - Famine, 1845-1852
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady; Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39); Introduction -- Black roads -- Conclusion
N2  - The Great Hunger was the most gothic event in Ireland's history and has haunted Irish literature ever since. Both Irish Gothic literature and the work of the Irish modernists resonate with the cultural memory of the suffering of millions. In the struggle to resist the diminishment of this tragedy, Irish Gothic writers preserved the memory of the Famine when a general silence prevailed among Victorial historians and novelists. This essay traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carleton's "The Black Prophet" to more contemporary work by authors including Patrick McCabe, Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland, as well as playwrights such as Tom Murphy, Conor McPherson and Marina Carr, and argues that all post-Famine Irish literature is about the Famine. --Page [4] of cover
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