Seeds of revolution: the culture and politics of the great famine in the Irish northwest

Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh. Viewing the famine as a man-made process,and exploring the voices of the residents of Fermanagh as they attempt to understand and address the suffering around them, Vincent emphasizes the creationof cultural knowledge about the 'faminization' process and explores the interactions of local and national politics which structured the County experience of the famine and later political unrest. Throughout the book, Vincent foregrounds the gendered effects of the famine and provides us with a sensitive analysis of the cultural reaction to disruption and trauma. INDICE: Preface - Introduction - PART I: BEGINNINGS - The Dialectics of Reform - Moving Figures in a Shifting World - Modernity and Distress - Poor Law Impositions: Legislating Modernity - The Crisis of November 1845 - PART II: INTERVENTIONS - Feeding the Hungry and Paying the Price - Private Enterprise - PART III: BLACK '47 - 'The Earth is Softened for the Grave' - The Workhouse System under Siege - The Medico-Moral Dilemma - PART IV: SHALLOWS AND SILENCES - Dangerous Supplements - Poor Law Desolation - Disillusion/Dissolution - The Other Side of Silence - PART V: THE GREY YEARS - The Terror of the Possible (1848) - Dublin Castle: The Poor Law under Siege - Aftermath

• ISBN: 978-0-312-23996-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés