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The History of the Irish Famine

by Christine Kinealy , Jason King , Gerard Moran
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781138200777
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 1480
  • Original Price: GBP 575.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 2802 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Ireland

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government's culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852.

The narratives of those who perished, those who survived and those who emigrated form an integral part of this history and these volumes will make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled - Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes will provide a fresh way of understanding Irish history in general, and famine and migration in particular. Comprehensive editorial apparatus and annotation of the original texts are included along with bibliographies, appendices, chronologies and indexes that point the way for further study.

Professor Christine Kinealy, is the Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA. Professor Kinealy has published extensively on nineteenth-century Irish history.

Dr Gerard Moran, European School Brussels. Dr Moran is author of many books and articles on Emigratin from Ireland.

Dr Jason King, Moore Institute, Galway University. Dr King has published extensively on Irish emigration to Canada.

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