Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen Introduction -- Section I Rewriting History -- 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 G. Newby 'Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies': Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856-1868 -- Peter Slomanson Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift -- Section II Rereading the Classics -- Gordon Bigelow Anthony Trollope's Famine Economics -- Chris Morash 'Where All Ladders Start': Famine Memories in Yeats's Countess Cathleen -- Section III Commemorating the Dead -- Jonny Geber Reconstructing Realities: Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Famine through Archaeology -- Melissa Fegan Waking the Bones: The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature -- Section IV Spacing the Famine -- Declan Curran Geographic Scale and the Great Famine -- Paul S. Ell, Niall Cunningham and Ian N. Gregory No Spatial Watershed: Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine -- Section V Atlantic Connections -- 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 -- David Lloyd Afterword: The Afterlife of the Untimely Dead -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.