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Famine 150 : commemorative lecture series / edited by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Title
Famine 150 : commemorative lecture series / edited by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Publication
Dublin : Teagasc : University College, Dublin, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Ó Gráda, Cormac
  • Teagasc (Organization)
  • University College, Dublin
Description
viii, 178 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Famine one hundred fifty
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1845-1850
  • Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Potato industry > Ireland > History
  • Solanum tuberosum
  • Ireland > History > 1837-1901
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Eight lectures delivered Sept. 14-28, 1995, in Ballsbridge, in conjunction with Teagasc's Famine 150 Commemorative Exhibition.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-177).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The potato and Irish diet before the famine / David Dickson -- Farming and the famine / Mary Daly -- The potato and late blight in Ireland / Leslie Dowley -- Food supply and food riots / Andrés Eiríksson -- What people died of during the famine / Laurence Geary -- The potato famine in Europe / Peter Solar -- The Great Famine and other famines / Cormac Ó Gráda -- The famine as history / Joseph Lee.
ISBN
1901138097
LCCN
^^^97160626^
OCLC
  • 37176109
  • SCSB-12423502
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library