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“The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine,” presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University
Cian T. McMahon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
December 3, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:30 pm · Zoom
The Fund for Irish Studies at the Lewis Center for the Arts
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Cian T. McMahon, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, lectures on “The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine” with introduction by Paul Muldoon as part of the 2021-22 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series. The standard story of Ireland’s Great Famine exodus is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In “The Coffin Ship,” a groundbreaking work of transnational history, McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. In so doing, McMahon makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.