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The great Irish famine
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The great Irish famine

Author: Cathal Póirtéir
Publisher: Dublin : Mercier Press, 1995.
Series: The Thomas Davis lecture series
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cathal Póirtéir
ISBN: 1856351114 : 9781856351119
OCLC Number: 32822629
Description: 283 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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.
Series Title: The Thomas Davis lecture series
Responsibility: edited by Cathal Póirtéir.

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