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Author: David A. Valone
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009-12-21
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0761849009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.
Author: Cormac Ó'Gráda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780521557870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 1997-03-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780745310749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.
Author: Jerry Mulvihill
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780957434745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christime Kinealy
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2006-05-02
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0717155552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
Author: Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 144113977X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.
Author: Cecil Woodham Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations.
Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1137045175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441133089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Author: John Percival
Publisher: TV Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the potato famine that struck Ireland in 1845, resulting in the starvation deaths of over a million Irish citizens, the displacement of thousands, and the immigration of over one million to America and Australia.
