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This publication's initiative was devised to augment the museum experience, and is part of the museum's commitment to making its collection accessible to audiences of all ages and levels of educational interest. The pamphlets are produced to the highest level, beautifully illustrated with works from
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Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at
Quinnipiac University publishes a series of booklets called Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 â the worst demographic catastrophe of
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in partnership with the Gaelic-American Club (GAC), a plan that was unanimously voted for by the
Quinnipiac Board of Trustees. A selective exhibition opened temporarily on Old Post Road that September and October, pending establishment of the new museum site. It is now coordinated as the
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19th-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.
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of 1845â1852, as well as its causes and consequences. In addition to literature and artifacts, the museum contains the world's largest collection of Great Hunger-related art by both contemporary and 19th-century Irish and Irish-American artists.
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and have held in-person demonstrations. The university released a statement assuring that the collection would not be sold and that a search for a new institution interested in publicly displaying it was underway.
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