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 ...
This volume seeks to counterbalance the recent historiographical focus on the Great Irish Famine which has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852.
Montreal's fever sheds', in M. Corporaal, O. Frawley, and E. Mark-FitzGerald (eds), The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Cultures (Liverpool: ... O'Neill, P., Famine Irish and the American Racial State (London: Routledge, 2017).
This first volume addresses the questions: when did the famine begin and end; to what extent is the British government after 1846 culpable for the suffering and mortality; how important was philanthropy in alleviating the distress; what was ...
These volumes will make available, for the first time, original documentation of the narratives of those who perished, survived and emigrated the Great Irish Famine.