2023
DOI: 10.14324/herj.20.1.02
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The Great Irish Famine in Irish and UK history textbooks, 2010–2020

Abstract: This article considers the representation of the controversial issue of the Great Irish Famine (1845–50) in 27 recent Irish and UK history textbooks for the secondary level. Key contested issues – imports and exports, the British government’s laissez-faire economic policy, providentialist interpretations, and victim–perpetrator discourses – have long formed part of the narrative repertoire of Famine history; their representation and narrativisation in textbooks is analysed through narrative and content analysi… Show more

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