Repeal and revolution

Kinealy, Christine

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“…As Kinealy notes, government policy in dealing with the Irish Famine was to import cheap corn from India, which, 'although not sufficient to feed the distressed, was successful in stabilizing the price and distribution of corn' internationally. 39 Its importation was 'not for the purpose of meeting the entire wants of the Irish people, but for the purpose of checking the markets and of preventing the price of corn from being unduly enhanced'. 40 Conlon-McKenna's allusions thus recall Moore's thesis that capitalist accumulation 'unfolded through a greatly expanded ecological surplus, manifested in cheap food, cheap energy and cheap inputs'.…”

Section: Ireland As Bread Basket For the British Imperial Centrementioning

confidence: 99%

“…39 Its importation was 'not for the purpose of meeting the entire wants of the Irish people, but for the purpose of checking the markets and of preventing the price of corn from being unduly enhanced'. 40 Conlon-McKenna's allusions thus recall Moore's thesis that capitalist accumulation 'unfolded through a greatly expanded ecological surplus, manifested in cheap food, cheap energy and cheap inputs'. 41 Or, as Niblett puts it, things 'are "cheap" to the degree that they drive down the system-wide organic composition of capital … Cheap food, moreover, reduces the value of labour-power'.…”

Section: Ireland As Bread Basket For the British Imperial Centrementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Gendering of Irish and Caribbean Food/Land Crises in Children's Novels by Marita Conlon-McKenna and James Berry

Houlden¹,

Gunne²

2019

Irish University Review

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Marita Conlan-McKenna's Under the Hawthorne Tree (1990) and James Berry's Ajeemah and His Son (1991) are children's novels that address foundational national or regional trauma (dealing with transatlantic slavery and the Irish potato famine respectively). Both employ historical fictive modes to bring the nineteenth century to life, in the process illustrating the extractive capitalism at the heart of the colonial endeavour. Links between Ireland and the Caribbean have long existed, Hilary Beckles observing the persistent characterization of the Irish as ‘one-dimensional colonial characters […] battered and bruised by a triumphant imperial Englishness that viewed them as “baggage” along the route from Cork and Limerick through Bristol to Boston and Barbados’ (Beckles ix). Expanding on this sense of Ireland and the Caribbean as jointly tethered to global imperial trends, this article focuses on the role of food and consumption, arguing that these novels make clear the ongoing role of food scarcity and land control within the cyclical crises of capitalist expansion. Ajeemah and His Son reinforces the importance of land ownership in Jamaica as its protagonist falls in line with the values of the society he has been thrust into, while Under the Hawthorne Tree frames famine as a representative crisis of the world-system.

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Section: Ireland As Bread Basket For the British Imperial Centrementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ireland As Bread Basket For the British Imperial Centrementioning

confidence: 99%