Niamh Ann Kelly: Ultimate Witnesses [2017] paperback ZARCH Just 75 years ago

Just 75 years ago

It made no concessions to the 'teenager'

and honest labour

and the elemental darkness in us all

Niamh Ann Kelly: Ultimate Witnesses [2017] paperback ZARCH Just 75 years agoThe devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance. Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of pre famine conventions around death, burial and mourning, which drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic pagan traditions.