The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations

About

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 18471870 (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 Queens University Belfast. He is the author of The Irish Famine (1995) Famine Land and Politics (1999) and The Making of the Irish Poor Law 181543 (2009). He is co-editor of The Irish Lord Lieutenancy c.15411922 (2012) Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 18381948 (2011) Victorias Ireland? Irishness and Britishness 18371901 (2004) and The Memory of Catastrophe (2004).