Cultural Memory as a Bridge between the Past and the Present: Sheena Blackhall’s “The Irish Famine”
Abstract
Keywords
Cultural memory as a bridge between the past and the present, the Great Irish Potato Famine, Sheena Blackhall’s “The Irish Famine”, the Famine Monument and the Jeanie Johnston on the Custom House Quay in Dublin
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