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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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Contributors: Crowley, John, 1966-, Smyth, William J., 1949-, Murphy, Michael, 1966 February 3-, Roche, Charlie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Subjects and Genres:
Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Irish > Migrations > History > 19th century.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland > Social conditions > 19th century.
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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.

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