Today Ireland's Great Hunger Museum's "Famine Folios," a project I've been working on for the past 14 months, went to press.
"Famine Folios," commissioned by Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, are a part of a new publication program which provides a unique Famine resource for scholars and researchers.
The "Famine Folios" series launches with four 30 —60 page illustrated essays, each written by well-known professors and historians of the Famine in Ireland. These illustrated pamphlets reference pieces of art within the Museum's collection and are also a demonstration of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum's extensive database of pictorial newspapers (The Illustrated London News, Pictorial Times, etc.) The program intends to continue to release four pamphlets each year.
The authors featured in the initial launch include:
Luke Gibbons, professor of Irish literary and cultural studies at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Christine Kininealy, professor of history at Quinnipiac University and foundation director or Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
Catherine Marshall, art historian and former curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Niamh O'Sullivan, professor emeritus of visual culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and curator of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
All Illustrated pamphlets will be available for purchase at Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, at Quinnipiac University.
