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Author : Jerry Mulvihill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Famines
ISBN : 095743474X
Author : Jill Sherman
Publisher : Cause-And-Effect Disasters
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512411195
Discover how the Irish potato famine resulted in 1 million deaths between 1845 and 1852 and created a huge wave of emigration. What caused crops to fail? How did families cope? Follow the causes and effects of the disaster.
Author : Cormac Ó'Gráda,Economic History Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557879
A concise analysis of one of the great disasters of Irish history.
Author : John Crowley,William J. Smyth,Michael Murphy,Tomás Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Famines
ISBN : 1859184790
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.
Author : Colm Toibin,Diarmaid Ferriter
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0312300514
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.
Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547530857
Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish Famine, a time when one million people died from starvation and disease and two million more fled their homeland. Black Potatoes is the compelling story of men, women, and children who defied landlords and searched empty fields for scraps of harvested vegetables and edible weeds to eat, who walked several miles each day to hard-labor jobs for meager wages and to reach soup kitchens, and who committed crimes just to be sent to jail, where they were assured of a meal. It’s the story of children and adults who suffered from starvation, disease, and the loss of family and friends, as well as those who died. Illustrated with black and white engravings, it’s also the story of the heroes among the Irish people and how they held on to hope. “Bartoletti humanizes the big events by bringing the reader up close to the lives of ordinary people.”—Booklist (starred review)
Author : James S Donnelly
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752486932
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 : Christime Kinealy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717155552
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 : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691217925
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.
Author : Leslie Clarkson,Margaret Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543678
This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
Author : Cathal Poirteir
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781178607
This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading historians, economists and geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States – have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine. Contributors include Dr Kevin Whelan, Professor Mary Daly, Professor James Donnelly and Professor Cormac Ó Gráda. The Great Irish Famine was the first major series of essays on the Famine published in Ireland for almost fifty years.
Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016607290
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.
Author : Cecil Woodham-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070053187
Author : John Percival
Publisher : TV Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037795997
Discusses the potato famine that struck Ireland in 1845, resulting in the starvation deaths of over a million Irish citizens, the displacement of thousands, and the immigration of over one million to America and Australia.
Author : Joseph R. O'Neill
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617851773
This title examines an important historic event, the Irish Potato Famine. Readers will learn the history of Ireland leading up to the famine, key players and happenings during the famine, and the event's effect on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.