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Title:

The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir.

Publisher:

Dufour Editions,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

283 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Famines--Ireland--History--19th century.
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland--History--1837-1901.

Other Authors:

Póirtéir, Cathal.

Notes:

Originally published: Dublin : Mercier Press, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283).

Contents:

Mass eviction and the great famine / James S. Donnelly, Jr. -- 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. --
Great famine and today's famines / Cormac Ó Gráda. 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:

The Thomas Davis lecture series

ISBN:

9780802313164 (pbk.)
0802313167 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36626589

LCCN:

98125346

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)