A Geography of Famine
Reflections on the Starvation of Truth
Keywords:
history, famine, ireland, kerryAbstract
This essay takes us on a voyage. The journey is long and the seas turbulent, yet we travel no further than the self. To satisfy the intellectual need, however, our thoughts are woven through a format comprising an introduction, middle and conclusion. Despite the inbuilt requirements of this structure, it should not be conceived as an enclosing prison. Rather it must be considered as a cantilever, both open-ended and infinite. Thus this enquiry seeks not to limit us, because inevitably we are limited only by our own self-imposed constraints. Once aware of these limitations, we can learn a little by reflecting on the content that fills this framework. We move beyond it, however, only by seeking to bend the walls of our knowledge and through a fulfilment found in our understanding of others. For true knowledge should reveal to us the infinity of our ignorance relative to the self, and to others.
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