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While it was one of the watershed events in the history of Ireland, the famine of the 1840’s received little public recognition until its 150th anniversary, when an unprecedented number of monuments commemorating it were constructed in Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada, and Australia. In this book Emily Mark-Fitzgerald examines this tremendous material output in an extensive global survey that touches on the history of Ireland and its diaspora. Situating memorials dedicated to the famine within a larger memorial culture, she explores why such memories matter, describing how they shape the ways the now-global Irish ethnic community defines itself.