| Description |
xvi, 710 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT FAMINE -- The story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52: a geographical perspective / William J. Smyth -- 'Mapping the people': the growth and distribution of the population / William J. Smyth -- The potato: root of the Famine / John Feehan -- Baunreagh, County Laois: the failure of the potato / John Feehan -- Diet in pre-Famine Ireland / Regina Sexton -- II. THE GREAT HUNGER -- The longue durée: imperial Britain and colonial Ireland / William J. Smyth -- The colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine / David Nally -- British relief measures / Peter Gray -- The operation of the Poor Law during the Famine / Christine Kinealy -- The largest amount of good: Quaker relief efforts / Helen Hatton -- 'Born astride a grave': the geography of the dead / William J. Smyth -- III. THE WORKHOUSE -- The creation of the workhouse system / William J. Smyth -- Classify, confine, discipline, and punish: the Roscrea Union: a microgeography of the workhouse system during the Famine / William J. Smyth -- Famine and workhouse clothing / Hilary O'Kelly -- The Cork workhouse / Michelle O'Mahony -- Ulster workhouses: ideological geometry and conflict / Liz Thomas -- Lurgan workhouse / Gerard Mac Atasney -- IV. POPULATION DECLINE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- Mortality and the Great Famine / Cormac Ó Gráda -- 'Variations in vulnerability': understanding where and why the people died / William J. Smyth -- Medical relief and the Great Famine / Larry Geary -- Emigration to North America in the ear of the Great Famine, 1845-55 / Kerby A. Miller -- The cities and towns of Ireland, 1841-51 / Kevin Hourihan -- The roles of cities and towns during the Great Famine / William J. Smyth -- The impact of the Great Famine on subsistent women / Dympna McLoughlin -- The landed classes during the Great Irish Famine / David J. Butler -- CONNACHT -- The province of Connacht and the Great Famine / William J. Smyth -- Clifden Union, Connemara, County Galway / Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill -- In the shadow of Sliabh an Iarainn / Gerard Mac Atasney -- The Famine in County Roscommon / Mary Kelly -- Ballykilcline, County Roscommon / Charles E. Orser Jr. -- LEINSTER -- The province of Leinster and the Great Famine / William J. Smyth -- County Meath during the Famine / Peter Connell -- Burying the Famine dead: Kilkenny Union workhouse / Jonny Geber -- King's County during the Great Famine: 'poverty and plenty' / Ciarán Reilly -- The Smith estate of Baltyboys, County Wicklow / Matthew Stout -- MUNSTER -- The province of Munster and the Great Famine / William J. Smyth -- Mortality and emigration in six parishes in the Union of Skibbereen, West Cork, 1846-47 / Patrick Hickey -- The famine in the Country Tipperary parish of Shanrahan / William J. Smyth -- The famine in the Dingle Peninsula / Kieran Foley -- Famine relief in Cove and the Great Island, April 1846-March 1847 / Marita Foster -- ULSTER -- The province of Ulster and the Great Famine / William J. Smyth -- The Great Famine and religious demography in mid-nineteenth-century Ulster / Kerby A. Miller, Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy -- The Great Hunger in Belfast / Gerard Mac Atasney and Christine Kenealy -- Mapping the Famine in Monaghan / Patrick J. Duffy -- The management of Famine in Donegal in the hungry forties / Jim MacLauglin -- V. WITNESSING THE FAMINE -- The Great Famine in Gaelic manuscripts / Neil Buttimer -- The artist as witness: James Mahony / Julian Campbell -- Asenath Nicholson's Irish journeys / Lorraine Chadwick -- Thomas Carlyle and famine Ireland / John Crowley -- 'Le pays classique de la faim': France and the Great Irish Famine / Grace Neville -- VI. THE SCATTERING -- Exodus from Ireland: patterns of emigration / William J. Smyth -- Liverpool and the Great Irish Famine / Carmen Tunney and Pat Nugent -- Irish famine refugees and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic Football Club / John Reid -- Archaeological evidence of Irish migration? Rickets in the Irish community of London's East End, 1843-54 / Don Walker, Michael Henderson and Natasha Powers -- Black '47 and Toronto, Canada / Mark G. McGowan -- The famine and New York City / Anelise H. Shrout -- The Great Famine and Australia / Thomas Keneally -- 'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus': Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848-52 / Jennifer Harrison -- VII. LEGACY -- Land reform in post-Famine Ireland / Willie Nolan -- Legacy and loss: the great silence and its aftermath / Máiréad Nic Craith -- Famine and the Irish diaspora / Piaras Mac Éinri -- VIII. REMEMBERING THE FAMINE -- The folklore of the Famine: Seanchas an Drochshaoil / Cathal Póirtéir -- Sites of memory / John Crowley -- The big house and Famine memory / Terence Dooley -- Mapping the Great Famine in Irish art / Catherine Marshall -- Literature and the Famine / Chris Morash -- IX. HUNGER AND FAMINE TODAY -- The Great Famine and today's famines / Cormac Ó Gráda -- Food security, food poverty, food sovereignty: moving beyond labels to a world of change? / Colin Sage -- Images of famine: whose hunger? / Luke Dodd -- Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century / Connell Foley. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
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Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
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Famines. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Irish -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century.
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Irish -- Migrations. |
| Added Author |
Crowley, John, 1966-
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Smyth, William J., 1949-
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Murphy, Michael, 1966 February 3-
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Bradley, Helen.
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Kelly, Tomás.
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| ISBN |
9780814771488 cl acid-free paper |
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0814771483 cl acid-free paper |
| Standard No. |
40021429875 |
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