Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory | 
pickMary Kelly‘s historical study does what fiction alone has tended to do- it imagines the aftermath and inner history of a holocaust. She argues that the Great Famine of 1845 is a traumatic silence at the core of a fractured twentieth-century Irish-American culture and identity. This suppression of the shocking impetus for Irish emigration allowed for a transformation from denigrated “papists“ to “acceptable“ white ethnicity
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