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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52

Author : John Crowley,William J. Smyth,Michael Murphy,Tomás Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Famines
ISBN : 1859184790

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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52 by John Crowley,William J. Smyth,Michael Murphy,Tomás Kelly Pdf

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 population in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The 2000 US census had 41 million people claim Irish ancestry, or one in five white Americans. This book considers how such a near total decimation of a country by natural causes could take place in industrialized, 19th century Europe and situates the Great Famine alongside other world famines for a more globally informed approach. It seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands and thousands of people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits or in fields and ditches, with little or nothing to remind us of their going. The centrality of the Famine workhouse as a place of destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the atlas represents and documents the conditions and experiences of the many thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years, with case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York and Toronto. The Atlas places the devastating Irish Famine in greater historic context than has been attempted before, by including over 150 original maps of population decline, analysis and examples of poetry, contemporary art, written and oral accounts, numerous illustrations, and photography, all of which help to paint a fuller picture of the event and to trace its impact and legacy. In this comprehensive and stunningly illustrated volume, over fifty chapters on history, politics, geography, art, population, and folklore provide readers with a broad range of perspectives and insights into this event. -- Publisher description.

This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

Author : Christime Kinealy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717155552

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This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine by Christime Kinealy Pdf

The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.

Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland

Author : Christine Kinealy,Jason King,Gerard Moran
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Children
ISBN : 0990468690

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Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy,Jason King,Gerard Moran Pdf

This publication explores the impact of the Famine on children and young adults. It examines the topic through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, history, visual representations, folklore and folk-memory.

Famine Pots

Author : LeAnne Howe,Padraig Kirwan
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628954043

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Famine Pots by LeAnne Howe,Padraig Kirwan Pdf

The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the height of the potato famine in Ireland, just sixteen years after the Choctaw began their march on the Trail of Tears toward the areas west of the Mississippi River. Famine Pots honors that extraordinary gift and provides further context about and consideration of this powerful symbol of cross-cultural synergy through a collection of essays and poems that speak volumes of the empathy and connectivity between the two communities. As well as signaling patterns of movement and exchange, this study of the gift exchange invites reflection on processes of cultural formation within Choctaw and Irish society alike, and sheds light on longtime concerns surrounding spiritual and social identities. This volume aims to facilitate a fuller understanding of the historical complexities that surrounded migration and movement in the colonial world, which in turn will help lead to a more constructive consideration of the ways in which Irish and Native American Studies might be drawn together today.

Black '47 and Beyond

Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691217925

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Black '47 and Beyond by Cormac Ó Gráda Pdf

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.

The Great Irish Potato Famine

Author : James S Donnelly
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752486932

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The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S Donnelly Pdf

In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.

Map-making, Landscapes and Memory

Author : William J. Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000109981377

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Map-making, Landscapes and Memory by William J. Smyth Pdf

"This is the first engagement in one book by a geographer with the most formative and revolutionary period (c. 1530-1750) in Ireland's history. Using the intertwined concepts of 'colonialism' and 'early modernity', the book comprises a geographical analysis of the conquest and settlement of Ireland by the New English (and Scottish). The consequences of this often violent intrusion upon the cultures and landscapes of pre-existing Irish societies are examined. The geographies of resistance or accommodation to conquest and colonisation and the striking cultural continuities and hybrid cultural forms that emerged from these encounters are explored and regionalised."--BOOK JACKET.

Discoveries: Irish Famine

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016607290

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Discoveries: Irish Famine by Peter Gray Pdf

Ireland in the 19th century was extraordinarily dependent on one crop - the potato. When that crop failed in 1845, it left one in eight Irish dead.

The Famine Plot

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137045171

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The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan Pdf

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.

Mapping the Great Irish Famine

Author : Liam Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050182156

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Mapping the Great Irish Famine by Liam Kennedy Pdf

This book represents cartographically the dramatic impact that the Great Potato Famine had on Ireland. Based largely on the enormous body of statistics contained in the Database of Irish Historical Statistics at the Queen's University of Belfast, the authors present a picture of Ireland before, during and after the Great Famine.

The Great Irish Famine

Author : Enda Delaney
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0717160106

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The Great Irish Famine by Enda Delaney Pdf

The Great Irish Famine tells of the last great famine in European history. First-hand accounts and writings by four contemporary real people are used to give a complete and personal picture of the historic tragedy.

The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880

Author : James Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108340755

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The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880 by James Kelly Pdf

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

Humanitarianism in the Modern World

Author : Norbert Götz,Georgina Brewis,Steffen Werther
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493529

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Humanitarianism in the Modern World by Norbert Götz,Georgina Brewis,Steffen Werther Pdf

A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.

The Irish Famine

Author : Colm Toibin,Diarmaid Ferriter
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0312300514

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The Irish Famine by Colm Toibin,Diarmaid Ferriter Pdf

The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing academic response to Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1963 classic, The Great Hunger, which, in addition to presenting a vivid and horrifying picture of the human suffering, made strong accusations against the British government's failure to act. And while British governmental sins of omission and commission during the famine played their part, there is a broader context of land agitation and regional influences of class conflict within Ireland that also contributed to the starvation of more than a million people. This remarkable book opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Colm Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian Diarmaid Ferriter. An important piece of revisionist thinking, The Irish Famine: A Documentary is sure to become the classic primer for this lamentable period of Irish history.

The Irish Famine

Author : Noel Kissane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036064684

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The Irish Famine by Noel Kissane Pdf

The National Library of Ireland is a major source for the study of the Irish Famine. Its collections include the newspapers, the parliamentary debates, and the various official reports published at the time. The Department of Manuscripts holds the records of many of the great landed estates, which provide primary evidence on the landlords' role in the crisis. The Library's extensive collection of prints and drawings enables us to visualise conditions at the time, and to empathise with our ancestors in their travails. To give as broad an understanding as possible of this vast and complex subject, the book also includes documents and illustrations from a number of other repositories. They include the National Archives, the Department of Irish Folklore at University College Dublin, Dublin Diocesan Archives, Birmingham Library Services, the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the McKinney Library in Albany, U.S.A., and the National Archives of Canada.