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This volume is the first book to bring together ground-breaking research on the role of European famines in the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education and monument creation.The presence of these famine pasts continues to be felt in the immediate present: in traditional and social media, museums, and class rooms, as well as through monuments and activities surrounding commemorations. Furthermore, these European famines have often been politicised in public debates, such as those regarding the recent economic crisis, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and refugee crisis, or the current war instigated by Russia in Ukraine. The book chapters, written by famine experts from across Europe and North America, adopt a pioneering transnational perspective, and discuss issues such as contestable and repressed heritage, materiality, dark tourism, education on famines, oral history, multidirectional memory, and visceral empathy. Questions that are addressed include: why are educational curricula and practices in schools and on heritage sites region- or nation-oriented or transnational, and do they emphasise conflict or mutual understanding? How do present issues of European concern - such as globalisation, commodification, human rights, poverty and migration - intersect with the heritage and memory of modern European famines? What role do emigrant and diasporic communities within and outside Europe play in the development of famine heritage and educational practices? And to what extent is famine heritage accessible to and involving immigrants from outside Europe? The collection is thematically arranged according to three strands: education, the representation of European famines in monuments as well as their function in commemoration practices, and how these famines are depicted in museums.This volume provides a crucial resources for museum and heritage professionals, scholars and students working on difficult or dark heritages, as well as those interested in the study of famines and legacies of troubled pasts in a more general sense. It will also be of interest to those working on modern Europe from the perspective of Memory Studies, Educational Studies, History, Literature, and Cultural Studies.

The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing considers the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from the Irish Famine generation: Anna Dorsey, Christine Faber, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Jones, Kate Kennedy, Margaret Dixon McDougall, Mary Meaney, Alice Nolan, Fanny Parnell, Mary Anne Sadlier, and Elizabeth Hely Walshe. This collection examines the ways the writings of these women contributed significantly to the construction of Irish North-American identities, and played a crucial role in the dissemination of Famine memories transgenerationally as well as transnationally. The included annotated excerpts from these women writers' works and the accompanying essays by prominent international scholars offer insights on the sociopolitical position of the Irish in North America, their connections with the homeland, women's activities in transnational (often Catholic) publishing networks and women writers' mediation of Ireland's cultural heritage. Furthermore, the volume illustrates the generic variety of Irish American women's writing of the Famine generation, which comprises political treatises, novels, short stories and poetry, and bears witness to these female authors' profound engagement with political and social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and woman's vote.