Quinn Terry

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Quinn Terry is a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Their research interests include cemetery iconography, social power structures and their effect on cultural memory, funerary rites, and the history of death and dying. Their other interests include the development of cocktail culture and queer history.

History

Irish Keens, Modern Grief, and the Digital Landscape of Mourning

By Quinn Terry • January 13, 2021

In January 1833, an author known only as O’G published their musings on the Irish funeral cry, or caoine, in the Dublin Penny Journal. O’G described the cry as “the most singularly plaintive and mournful expression of excessive grief that could well be imagined.” In the article, O’G describes traveling the Irish countryside on horseback… Read more →