Ireland's Great Hunger

Ireland's Great Hunger
Title Ireland's Great Hunger PDF eBook
Author David A. Valone
Publisher University Press of America
Pages 238
Release 2009-12-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0761849009

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The 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.

The Great Irish Famine

The Great Irish Famine
Title The Great Irish Famine PDF eBook
Author Cormac Ó'Gráda
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 98
Release 1995-09-28
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521557870

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The 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.

This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine
Title This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine PDF eBook
Author Christime Kinealy
Publisher Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Pages 410
Release 2006-05-02
Genre History
ISBN 0717155552

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The 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.

The Truth Behind the Irish Famine 1845-1852

The Truth Behind the Irish Famine 1845-1852
Title The Truth Behind the Irish Famine 1845-1852 PDF eBook
Author Jerry Mulvihill
Publisher
Pages 295
Release 2017
Genre Famines
ISBN 9780957434745

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A Death-Dealing Famine

A Death-Dealing Famine
Title A Death-Dealing Famine PDF eBook
Author Christine Kinealy
Publisher Pluto Press
Pages 204
Release 1997-03-20
Genre History
ISBN 9780745310749

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Examines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.

The Great Famine

The Great Famine
Title The Great Famine PDF eBook
Author Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 138
Release 2011-06-02
Genre History
ISBN 144113977X

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Over 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.

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Title Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland PDF eBook
Author Christine Kinealy
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 257
Release 2013-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 1441133089

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The 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.