The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir.
Contributor(s): Póirtéir, Cathal | Raidió Teilifís Éireann.
Material type: BookSeries: Thomas Davis lecture series.Publisher: Cork : Mercier in association with Radio Telefís Éireann, 1995Description: 283 p. ; 20 cm.Subject(s): Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 | Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901DDC classification: 941.58Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 941.58 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00018286 | ||
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 941.58 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00018285 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283).
Introduction / Cathal Poiteir -- Pre and Post-Famine Landscape Change / Kevin Whelan -- The Great Famine and Irish Politics / S. J. Connolly -- The 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 -- The role of the poor law during the Famine / Christine Kinealy -- The operations of Famine Relief, 1845-57 / Mary E. Daly -- The Stigma of Souperism / Irene Whelan -- Mass Eviction and the Great Famine / James S. Donnelly, Jr -- Flight from Famine / David Fitzpatrick -- The Famine in the Skibbereen Union (1845-51) / Patrick Hickey, c.c. -- The persistence of famine in Ireland / Tim P. O'Neill -- Folk Memory and the Famine / Cathal Poirteir -- Irish Famine in Literature / Margaret Kelleher -- The Great Famine and Today's Famines / Cormac O Grada.