Breandan Mac Suibhne
Breandán Mac Suibhne is a historian of society and culture in modern Ireland and associate professor of History at Centenary University, New Jersey. Among his publications are The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Subjects Lacking Words? The Gray Zone of the Great Famine (Quinnipiac University Press, 2017). He is editor of two major annotated editions, viz., John Gamble, Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Field Day, 2011) and, with David Dickson, Hugh Dorian's The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal (Lilliput, 2000; University of Notre Dame Press, 2001). A founding editor, with critic Seamus Deane, of Field Day Review (2005–), a journal of political and literary culture, he has also edited, with Enda Delaney, Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics (Routledge, 2016).
Death without Ritual will be Hard on Communities
Reprinted from the Sunday Independent (Ireland), p. 18. Some years ago, Thomas Lynch, an American undertaker and poet, with a long connection to County Clare, was asked what made a… | Read on »