La zone grise, le Gros mot, et de nouvelles manières de le raconter : quelques histoires récentes de la Grande Famine
The notion of a ‘grey zone’ defined by Primo Levi helps to better understand the lives of the poor during the Great Famine. Hugh Dorian’s memoirs and the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission highlight tensions between Irish people at the time, as well as their attitude towards the government. T...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/282 |
| Summary: | The notion of a ‘grey zone’ defined by Primo Levi helps to better understand the lives of the poor during the Great Famine. Hugh Dorian’s memoirs and the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission highlight tensions between Irish people at the time, as well as their attitude towards the government. The issue of London’s responsibility is also dealt with by recent innovative books by Tim Pat Coogan, Enda Delaney, John Kelly and Ciarán Ó Murchadha, even if each one provides a different answer to the highly-charged question of a genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 0248-9015 2429-4373 |