The Great Irish Famine and Social Class

Marguérite Corporaal is Associate Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the author of Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847–1870 (2017) and co-editor of Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (2017), Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2014), Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology (2012) and Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (2017). Peter Gray is Professor of Modern Irish History and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of The Irish Famine (1995), Famine, Land and Politics (1999) and The Making of the Irish Poor Law, 1815–43 (2009). He is co-editor of The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c.1541–1922 (2012), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, 1838–1948 (2011), Victoria’s Ireland? Irishness and Britishness, 1837–1901 (2004) and The Memory of Catastrophe (2004).

CONTENTS: Melissa Fegan: How the Other Three-Quarters Lived: The Cabin in Famine Literature – Paweł Hamera: «[W]orse than the Great Polish and Russian Proprietors»: Landlord-Tenant Relations in Ireland and Partitioned Poland in the Pre-Famine Period – Ciarán Reilly: «A Vast Waste of Pauperism»: An Examination of Irish Famine Eviction – Declan Curran: Organizational Narrative and Memory in Social Context: Representations of the Great Irish Famine in Official Publications of Irish Joint-Stock Banks – Peter Gray: William Sharman Crawford, the Famine and County Down – Christopher Cusack: Transformative Nationalism and Class Relations in Irish Famine Fiction, 1896–1909 – Andrés Eiríksson: «Paupers and Beggars Brats»: Governance and Mortality in the Parsonstown Workhouse during the Great Famine – Marguérite Corporaal: Workhouses as Heterotopic Spaces in Early Famine Fiction – Lewis Darwen/Brian Gurrin: «Bad As It Is, We Were Better Off in England»: Locating the Famine Irish Experience in Britain through Deposition estimony – Jason King: «The Atrocious Avarice of the Irish Landlords»: Canadian Public Sentiment and the Irish Famine Migration of 1847 – Peter D. O’Neill: The Famine Irish, the Catholic Church, and the Cultural Dynamics of the American Middle Class.