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The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir.
- Title
- The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir.
- Publication
- Dublin : Mercier press, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Póirtéir, Cathal.
- Description
- 283 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Thomas Davis lecture series
- Uniform Title
- Thomas Davis lecture series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Published in association with Radio Telefís Éireann."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pre and post-famine landscape change / Kevin Whelan -- Great famine and Irish politics / S.J. Connolly -- Other great Irish famine / David Dickson -- Food and famine / E. Margaret Crawford -- Famine, fever and the bloody flux / Laurence M. Geary -- Ideology and the famine / Peter Gray -- Role of the poor law during the famine / Christine Kinealy -- Operations of famine relief, 1845-57 / Mary E. Daly -- Stigma of Souperism / Irene Whelan -- Mass eviction and the great famine / James S. Donnelly, Jr.
- Flight from famine / David Fitzpatrick -- Famine in the Skibbereen union (1845-51) / Patrick Hickey, c.c. -- Persistence of famine in Ireland / Tim P. O'Neill -- Folk memory and the famine / Cathal Póirtéir -- Irish famine in literature / Margaret Kelleher -- Great famine and today's famines / Cormac Ó Gráda.
- ISBN
- 1856351114 :
- LCCN
- ^^^95132309^
- OCLC
- 32822629
- SCSB-11549384
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library