The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir
1995, First Edition. Dublin : Mercier Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432174
ISBN: 1856351114
Physical description; 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283). 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. Subjects; Geschichte 1837-1901.1800-1901. 19th century. Famines Ireland History 19th century. Starvation history. History, 19th Century. Famines. Famines Ireland 19th century.
Price: €18.95