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    Redressing the silence: Photography, memory and the Great Famine

    228251_Carpenter 2015 main (see also App 5).pdf (5.272Mb)
    228252_Carpenter 2015 Appendix Five.pdf (7.843Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Carpenter, Paul Anthony Matthew
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Assoc. Prof. Joan Wardrop
    Dr. Ann Schilo
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Design and Art
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1265
    Collection
    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    Much has been said regarding the presumption of silence surrounding the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852). During and since the event’s sesquicentennial commemoration in the mid-1990s, this silence has been examined by scholars from diverse fields. Following these developments, this thesis examines how Photography’s enigmatic mix of referential and allegoric possibilities might, by uncovering the Famine’s traces, provide insights into the event, its memory and the class of cottiers and landless labourers who were obliterated by it.

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