Famine, land and politics : British government and Irish society 1843-1850 / Peter Gray.
By: Gray, Peter
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 1999Description: ix, 384 p : ill. ; 24cm + hbk.ISBN: 071652564X.Subject(s): Land tenure -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 | Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901 | Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 941.5081 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 941.5081 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069670 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is a study of the making of Britain's Irish policy in the period immediately preceeding and during the Great Famine of 1845-50. It looks particularly at interpretations of and responses to the 'land question', in the context of debates on the reconstruction of Irish rural society, the relief of poverty, and the responsibilities of the state. Political agitation increasingly focused attention on Irish social problems in the early 1840s, but it was the Famine which forced these to the forefront of British politics. This book analyses the ideological forces underlying the decisions that had such fatal consequences for the people of Ireland and for the country's future.
Bibliography: (pages 339-365) and index.
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.