Atlas of the great Irish famine
The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implications that cannot be underestimated. Over a million people perished between 1845-1852, and well over a million others fled to other locales within Europe and America. By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the pop...
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Table of Contents:
- I. Ireland before and after the Great Famine:
- The story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52: a geographical perspective
- 'Mapping the people': the growth and distribution of the population
- The potato: root of the famine.
- II. The Great Hunger:
- The longue duree- imperial Britain and colonial Ireland
- The colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine
- British relief measures
- The operation of the Poor Law during the famine
- The largest amount of good: Quaker relief efforts
- 'Born astride a grave': the geography of the dead.
- III. The workhouse:
- The creation of the workhouse system
- Classify, confine, discipline and punish- the Roscrea Union: a microgeography of the workhouse system during the famine
- Ulster workhouses- ideological geometry and conflict.
- IV. Population decline and social transformations:
- Mortality and the Great Famine
- 'Variations in vulnerability': understanding where and why the people died
- Medical relief and the Great Famine
- Emigration to North America in the era of the Great Famine, 1845-55
- The cities and towns of Ireland, 1841-51
- Connacht: the province of Connacht and the Great Famine
- Leinster: the province of Leinster and the Great Famine
- Munster: the province of Munster and the Great Famine
- Ulster: the province of Ulster and the Great Famine.
- V. Witnessing: the famine:
- The Great Famine in gaelic manuscripts
- Asenath Nicholson's Irish journeys
- Thomas Carlyle and famine Ireland
- 'Le pays classique de la faim': France and the Great Irish Famine.
- VI. The scattering:
- Exodus from Ireland- patterns of emigration
- Liverpool and the Great Irish Famine
- Irish Famine refugees and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic Football Club
- Black '47 and Toronto, Canada
- The famine and New York City
- The Great Famine and Australia
- 'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus': Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848-52.
- VII. Legacy:
- Land reform in post-famine Ireland
- Legacy and loss: the Great Silence and its aftermath
- Famine and the Irish diaspora.
- VIII. Remembering the Famine:
- The folklore of the famine: Seanchas an Drochshaoil
- Sites of memory
- The big house and famine memory: Strokestown Park House
- Mapping the Great Famine in Irish art
- Literature and the famine.
- IX. Hunger and famine today:
- The Great Hunger and today's famines
- Food security, food poverty, food sovereignty: moving beyond labels to a world of change?
- Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century.