Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 3 of 3

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Imaging The Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession In Visual Culture, Preface & Introduction, Niamh Ann Kelly Jul 2020

Imaging The Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession In Visual Culture, Preface & Introduction, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

Niamh Ann Kelly's lavishly illustrated book throws new light on the visual culture commemorative of hunger, famine and dispossession in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. Located within the discipline of International Memorial Studies, the text and images both challenge and extend our understanding of Famine history. Examining the visual culture since the time of the Famine until the present, Kelly asks, how do we view, experience and represent the past in the present? To what extent does the viewer insert themselves in this complex process? Is there such a thing as ethical spectatorship? Kelly’s sophisticated yet sympathetic study of the “grievous history” …


Similarity And Difference: The Appearance Of Suffering At The Strokestown Famine Museum, Niamh Ann Kelly Jan 2010

Similarity And Difference: The Appearance Of Suffering At The Strokestown Famine Museum, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Vita Brevis; A Public Art Initiative At Boston's Institute Of Contemporary Art, Rikki Sierra Rooney Jan 2010

Vita Brevis; A Public Art Initiative At Boston's Institute Of Contemporary Art, Rikki Sierra Rooney

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.