This great calamity : the Irish famine, 1845-52
An examination of the famine in Ireland, the response by the Anglo-Irish and British governments, and the impact of the death and immigration of over two million people from Ireland during those seven years
Print Book, English, ©1995
Gill & Macmillan ; Roberts Rinehart : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West, [Dublin], Boulder, Colo., ©1995
History
xxi, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781570980343, 1570980349
32484115
1. Background: The Rags and Wretched Cabins of Ireland 1845
2. A Blight of Unusual Character 1845-6
3. We Cannot Feed the People 1846-7
4. The Deplorable Consequences of This Great Calamity 1846-7
5. Expedients Well Nigh Exhausted 1847-8
6. Making Property Support Poverty 1848-9
7. The General Advancement of the Country 1849-52
8. Their Sorrowful Pilgrimage: Emigration 1847-55
9. Conclusion 1845-52
"First published in Ireland in 1994 by Gill & Macmillan"--Title page verso