Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present.

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Visualizing the Famine: Nineteenth-Century Image, Reception and Legacy The Famine in fine art Newspaper illustration and the figure of Famine Legacy Chapter 3: Commemorating the Famine: 1940s-1990s Commemoration and historiography The 1990s sesquicentenary Trauma, genocide and Famine memory Chapter 4: Constructing Famine Spaces in Ireland Site: the workhouse and graveyard Presence: embodying Famine Performance: commemorative ritual and process Chapter 5: Community Famine Commemoration in Northern Ireland and the Diaspora Commemoration in contested spaces: Northern Ireland and Britain The high cross and Celtic Canada Imaging genealogy in the United States Chapter 6: Major Famine Memorials Dublin and Boston Murrisk, Co Mayo and Philadelphia Sydney New York City Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix: Famine Monuments - a Global Survey Bibliography Index