The great Irish famine
This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists, geographers - from Ireland, Britain and the United States - have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the famine. Contributors include Dr Kevin Whelan, Professor Mary Daly, Professor James Donnelly and Professor Cormac O Grada. The Great Irish Famine is the first major series of essays of the famine to be published in Ireland for almost fifty years
History
283 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
9781856351119, 1856351114
32822629
Irish landscapes - before and after the Famine, Kevin Wheelan; politics in Famine Ireland, Sean Connelly; Irish famines before the Great Famine, David Dickson; food and famine, Margaret Crawford; disease and death, Lawrence Geery; inside the mind of government, Peter Grey; the Poor Laws, Christine Kinealy; relief schemes, Mary Daly; the stigma of souperism, Irene Wheelan; evictions and clearances, Jim Donnelly; emigration and the social order, David Fitzpatrick; the persistence of famine, Tim O'Neil; folk memory and the Famine, Cathal Poirteir; the Great Famine - today's Famine, Cormac O'Grada; famine in West Cork, Fr Patrick Hickey.