Irelands Great Famine And Popular Politics
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Author | : Enda Delaney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134758057 |
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Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert "the animal’s right to existence," passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action.
Author | : Peter Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Explores the response of British government and public opinion to the Irish Famine in the light of contemporary debates about the nature and future of Irish society. The ideological filters through which the famine was perceived are discussed and the effects of the ideological rifts within the British elite are examined. The author argues that the politics of `relief' had been predetermined by English views of Irish society. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Donald E. Jordan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521466837 |
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A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.
Author | : Arthur Gribben |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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"In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is also known, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine. In the Irish language it is called an Gorta Mór (IPA: [n t mo?], meaning "the Great Hunger") or an Drochshaol ([n dxhi?l], meaning "the bad life"). During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%."--Wikipedia.
Author | : Donal A. Kerr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198207375 |
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Professor Kerr's scholarly and incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between Church and State and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of bringing a golden age to Ireland.
Author | : Ciarán Ó Murchadha |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144113977X |
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Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.
Author | : Cathal Poirteir |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2023-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781178607 |
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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 | : James S Donnelly Jr |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752486934 |
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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 | : Christine Kinealy |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230802478 |
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The Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 was both one of the most lethal famines in modern history and a watershed in the development of modern Ireland. This book - based on a wide range of little-used sources - demonstrates how the Famine profoundly affected many aspects of Irish life: the relationship between the churches; the nationalist movement; and the relationship with the monarchy. In addition to looking at the role of the government, Kinealy shows the importance of private charity in saving lives. One of the most challenging aspects of the publication is the chapter on food supply, in which Kinealy concludes that, despite the potato blight, Ireland was still producing enough food to feed its people. The long-term impact of the tragedy, notably the way in which it has been remembered and commemorated, is also examined.
Author | : Christime Kinealy |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0717155552 |
Download This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.