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Niamh Ann Kelly: Ultimate Witnesses [2017] paperback ZARCH And in 'Elliott Spencer'The 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.