On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University presented "Famine Folios," a symposium to celebrate the launch of its publications program.
The publications program, which provides a unique famine resource for scholars and researchers, features works by four authors who were commissioned by the museum to write essays based on various aspects of the Famine in Ireland (1845-1852).
The four essays, the first in a continuing series, was released at the symposium where the four authors will discuss their work at a panel discussion moderated by Richard Kearney, Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
The panelists and their essay titles were:
--Luke Gibbons, professor of Irish literacy and cultural studies at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, "Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger."
--Christine Kinealy, professor of history and founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac, "Apparitions of Death and Disease: The Great Hunger in Ireland."
--Catherine Marshall, art historian and former curator of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, "Monuments, Memorials and Visualizations of the Great Famine in Ireland."
--Niamh O'Sullivan, professor emeritus of visual culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and curator of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac, "The Tombs of a Departed Race: Illustrations of Ireland's Great Hunger."
