The Great Highland Famine

Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788854108

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The Great Highland Famine by Tom M. Devine Pdf

The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.

Author : T. M. (Thomas Martin) Devine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Famines
ISBN : OCLC:654748720

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The Great Highland Famine by T. M. (Thomas Martin) Devine Pdf

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0859763722

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The Great Highland Famine by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1285565714

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Great Highland Famine by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788852319

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Insurrection by James Hunter Pdf

'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as people's basic foodstuff. Oatmeal's soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere. As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized, ships boarded, harbours blockaded, a jail forced open, the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But thousands-strong crowds also gained key concessions. Above all they won cheaper food. Those dramatic events have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring. In an era of food banks and growing poverty, it is also very timely.

Author : Charles Read
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781783277278

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The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read Pdf

The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of the arrival of the potato blight in Ireland in 1845, more than a quarter of its residents had unexpectedly died or emigrated. Its population has not yet fully recovered since. Historians have struggled to explain why the British government decided to shut down its centrally organised relief efforts in 1847, long before the famine ended. Some have blamed the laissez-faire attitudes of the time for an inadequate response by the British government; others have alleged purposeful neglect and genocide. In contrast, this book uncovers a hidden narrative of the crisis, which links policy failure in Ireland to financial and political instability in Great Britain. More important than a laissez-faire ideology in hindering relief efforts for Ireland were the British government's lack of a Parliamentary majority from 1846, the financial crises of 1847, and a battle of ideas over monetary policy between proponents and opponents of financial orthodoxy. The high death toll in Ireland resulted from the British government's plans for intervention going awry, rather than being prematurely cancelled because of laissez-faire. This book is essential reading for scholars, students and anyone interested in Anglo-Irish relations, the history of financial crises, and why humanitarian-relief efforts can go wrong even with good intentions.

Author : James S Donnelly
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230802476

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The Great Irish Famine by Christine Kinealy Pdf

The Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 was both one of the most lethal famines in modern history and a watershed in the development of modern Ireland. This book - based on a wide range of little-used sources - demonstrates how the Famine profoundly affected many aspects of Irish life: the relationship between the churches; the nationalist movement; and the relationship with the monarchy. In addition to looking at the role of the government, Kinealy shows the importance of private charity in saving lives. One of the most challenging aspects of the publication is the chapter on food supply, in which Kinealy concludes that, despite the potato blight, Ireland was still producing enough food to feed its people. The long-term impact of the tragedy, notably the way in which it has been remembered and commemorated, is also examined.

Author : Robert Somers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Famines
ISBN : UOM:39015015380929

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Letters from the Highlands by Robert Somers Pdf

Author : Karen J. Cullen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748641840

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Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s by Karen J. Cullen Pdf

This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even underplayed by historians. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. A comprehensive study of agricultural, climatic, economic, social and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, it discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event.

Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441117588

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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland by Christine Kinealy Pdf

The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.

Author : Christime Kinealy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.

Author : Gail Turley Houston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429582523

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Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century by Gail Turley Houston Pdf

The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine, with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving. This volume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own chosen guilty and irrational psychological motives for casting a blind eye to famine within its own borders?

Author : William Pulteney Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Famines
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009937624

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Observations on the Famine of 1846-7, in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland by William Pulteney Alison Pdf

Author : Melissa Fegan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191555008

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Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 by Melissa Fegan Pdf

The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.