Marguérite Corporaal is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the principal investigator for the ERC-funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921. With Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen, she co-edited Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology. Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920 (2012). Christopher Cusack is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on literary memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1892 to 1921. Lindsay Janssen is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she is writing a thesis on cultural memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1871 to 1891. Ruud van den Beuken is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on memory, modernity and (inter)nationalist identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre from 1928 to 1957.

• Contents: Margaret Kelleher: The «Affective Gap» and Recent Histories of Ireland’s Great Famine – Peter Gray: The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c. 1860-1914 – Andrew Newby: «Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies»: Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856–1868 – Peter Slomanson: Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift – Gordon Bigelow: Anthony Trollope’s Famine Economics – Chris Morash: «Where All Ladders Start»: Famine Memories in Yeats’s Countess Cathleen – Jonny Geber: Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Irish Famine through Archaeology – Melissa Fegan: Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature – Declan Curran: Geographic Scale and the Great Irish Famine – Paul S. Ell/Niall Cunningham/Ian N. Gregory: No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine – David Sim: Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism: The United States and the Great Famine – Jason King: The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal – Mark G. Mcgowan: Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration.

Marguérite Corporaal is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the principal investigator for the ERC-funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921. With Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen, she co-edited Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology. Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920 (2012). Christopher Cusack is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on literary memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1892 to 1921. Lindsay Janssen is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she is writing a thesis on cultural memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Irish diaspora fiction from 1871 to 1891. Ruud van den Beuken is a PhD candidate and instructor at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is writing a thesis on memory, modernity and (inter)nationalist identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre from 1928 to 1957.

• Contents: Margaret Kelleher: The «Affective Gap» and Recent Histories of Ireland’s Great Famine – Peter Gray: The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c. 1860-1914 – Andrew Newby: «Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies»: Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856–1868 – Peter Slomanson: Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift – Gordon Bigelow: Anthony Trollope’s Famine Economics – Chris Morash: «Where All Ladders Start»: Famine Memories in Yeats’s Countess Cathleen – Jonny Geber: Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Irish Famine through Archaeology – Melissa Fegan: Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature – Declan Curran: Geographic Scale and the Great Irish Famine – Paul S. Ell/Niall Cunningham/Ian N. Gregory: No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine – David Sim: Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism: The United States and the Great Famine – Jason King: The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal – Mark G. Mcgowan: Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration.