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Famine, land and politics : British government and Irish society 1843-1850 / Peter Gray. - Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 1999. - ix, 384 p : ill. ; 24cm + hbk

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Irish land and British politics -- Agitation and inquiry, 1843-6 -- The coming of the blight: land and relief, 1845-6 -- Whiggery and the land question, 1846-50 -- 'The visitation of God': The Whigs and famine relief, 1846-7 -- 'Between the censure of the Economists and the Philanthropists': the Whigs and famine relief, 1847-50 -- Conclusion.

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Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--History--Ireland--19th century.
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Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

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