Periodical Famines

Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845–1919

Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University)

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Indiana University Press
04 February 2025

Social & cultural history; Famine; Press & journalism

Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent history, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the novels, poems, songs, and films that it continues to inspire, the Famine remains a crucial part of Irish memory. Famine memories have also reached across history and national borders to establish links with cultural groups who were not directly connected to the Irish diaspora.

Periodical Famines reveals how, within the transatlantic Irish periodical market between 1845 and 1910, Irish, Irish American, and Irish Canadian newspapers and magazines acted as carriers and shapers of cultural identities. Lindsay Janssen argues that famine memory was deployed transhistorically to help represent other crucial events in the Irish past, and periodicals used Famine recollections transnationally to give new meaning to events outside of Ireland, such as labor issues in the United States and the Second Boer War. Moving beyond individual writings to interrogate how different texts printed within a periodical issue influenced each other and affected audiences' attitudes to Irish hunger and distress, Janssen's cotextual approach reveals the intricate and sometimes divergent paths that Famine memory traveled through in the decades during and after its onset.

Drawing upon a substantial corpus of creative and nonfiction periodical publications (including nearly 600 works of poetry and prose fiction), Periodical Famines is a thorough analysis of transatlantic Irish periodical culture during and after the Great Famine, demonstrating how periodicals' transmission of famine memories shaped global cultures.

By: Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University)
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780253071903
ISBN 10: 0253071909
Series: Irish Culture, Memory, Place
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lindsay Janssen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University. She is editor (with Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken) of Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives; (with Christian Noack and Vincent Comerford) of Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland; and (with Marguérite Corporaal and Christopher Cusack) of Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology.

Reviews for Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845–1919

""We have long known that Famine memories are rooted in materiality, without really grasping how serial publication created readers, and hence memories. Lindsay Janssen has given us an indispensable book for anyone for whom memory of the Irish Famine matters.""—Christopher Morash, author of A History of the Media in Ireland