Artforum, July 1st, 2002
THE COTTAGE IS UNTHATCHED, SAYS TOLLE, BECAUSE MANY FAMILIES HAD TO TEAR OFF THE ROOF OF THEIR HOUSE TO PROVE THEMSELVES DESTITUTE IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR RELIEF. ON SITE VISITING FAMILY IN TIPPERARY a few years back, I was told of a place somewhere close-though I doubt I could find it again-that was described as a kind of memorial to the Irish famine of the 1840s and '50s. In a history populous with trauma, the famine-the Great Hunger, it is called-is a vaster one; spend time in Ireland and you will likely hear talk of it eventually, but it drifts on the edge of memory and visibility, every...
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