Hungry words : images of famine in the Irish Canon / edited by George Cusack, Sarah Goss.

Incluye bibliografía (p. [309]-336).

Introduction / George Cusack -- 1. The stricken land : the great hunger in Ireland / Christine Kinealy -- 2. The caoineadh in famine poetry : a communal expression of defiance / Katherine Parr -- 3. ´Philosophick views´? : Maria Edgeworth and the great famine / Margaret Kelleher -- 4. The limits of empathy : Trollope´s ´Castle Richmond´ / Margaret Scanlan -- 5. ´Dracula´ and the spectre of famine / Sarah Goss -- Feeding on gossamer, caught in the web : famine tensions in Yeats´s ´The Countess Cathleen´ / Jerome Joseph Day -- 7. ´In the gripe of the ditch´ : nationalism, famine and ´The playboy of the Western world´ / George Cusack -- 8. The Joyce of eating : feast, famine and the humble potato in ´Ulysses´ / Bonnie Ross -- 9. ´Buried! Who would have buried her?´ : famine ´ghost graves´ in Samuel Beckett´s ´Endgame´ / Julieann Ulin -- 10. Frank O´Connor and the Irish holocaust / Robert C. Evans -- 11. Tom Murphy : famine and dearth / Nicholas Grene -- 12. Irresponsible anorexia : the ethics of Eavan Boland´s famine / Nieves Pascual -- 13. ´It was a life-changing book´ : tracing Cecil Woodham-Smith´s impact on the canon of children´s literature of the Irish famine / Karen Hill McNamara -- 14. An afterword on silence / Christopher Morash.