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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52 /

Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52 / editors, John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy ; GIS consultant: Charlie Roche ; editorial assistant: Tomás Kelly. - Cork : Cork University Press, 2012. - xvi, 710 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; ; 31 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT FAMINE -- The story of the Great Irish Famine, 184552 : a geographical perspective -- 'Mapping the people' : the growth and distribution of the population -- 174041 Famine -- The potato : root of the Famine -- Baunreagh, County Laois : The failure of the potato -- Diet in pre-Famine Ireland -- II. THE GREAT HUNGER -- The longue durée - imperial Britain and colonial Ireland -- The colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine -- British relief measures -- Charles Trevelyan -- The operation of the poor law during the Famine -- Queen Victoria and the Great Famine -- Burying and resurrecting the past : the Queen Victoria statue in University College Cork -- The largest amount of good : Quaker relief efforts -- 'Born astride a grave' : The geography of the dead -- III. THE WORKHOUSE -- The creation of the workhouse system -- Classify, confine, discipline and punish - the Roscrea Union : a microgeography of the workhouse system during the Famine -- Famine and workhouse clothing -- The Cork workhouse -- Ulster workhouses - ideological geometry and conflict -- Lurgan workhouse -- IV. POPULATION DECLINE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS -- Mortality and the Great Famine -- 'Variations in vulnerability' : understanding where and why people died -- Medical relief and the Great Famine -- 'Report upon the recent epidemic fever in Ireland' : the evidence from County Cork -- Emigration to North America in the era of the Great Famine, 184555 -- The cities and towns of Ireland, 184151 -- The roles of cities and towns during the Great Famine -- The impact of the Great Famine on subsistent women -- The landed classes during the Great Irish Famine -- 'Turned out ... thrown down' : evictions in Bunkilla and Monavanshare, Donoughmore,County Cork -- CONNACHT -- Introduction : the province of Connacht and the Great Famine -- Clifden Union, Connemara, County Galway -- In the shadow of Sliabh an Iarainn -- Mohill workhouse Union -- The Famine in County Roscommon -- Ballykilcline, County Roscommon -- LEINSTER --Introduction : the province of Leinster and the Great Famine -- County Meath during the Famine -- Burying the Famine dead : Kilkenny Union workhouse -- King's County during the Great Famine :'poverty and plenty' -- The Smith estate of Baltyboys, County Wicklow -- MUNSTER -- Introduction : the province of Munster and the Great Famine -- Mortality and emigration in six parishes in the Union of Skibbereen, West Cork, 184647 -- From 'famine roads' to 'manor walls' : the Famine in Glenville, County Cork -- The Famine in the County Tipperary parish of Shanrahan -- The Famine in the Dingle Peninsula -- Famine relief in Cove and the Great Island, April 1846-March 1847 -- Visit of Queen Victoria to Cove, August 1849 -- ULSTER -- Introduction: the province of Ulster and the Great Famine -- The Great Famine and religious demography in midnineteenth-century Ulster -- The Great Hunger in Belfast -- Mapping the Famine in Monaghan -- The management of famine in Donegal in the hungry forties -- V. WITNESSING THE FAMINE -- The Great Famine in Gaelic manuscripts -- The artist as witness : James Mahony -- Asenath Nicholsons Irish journeys -- Thomas Carlyle and Famine Ireland -- 'Le pays classique de la faim' : France and the Great Irish Famine -- VI. THE SCATTERING -- Exodus from Ireland - patterns of emigration -- Liverpool and the Great Irish Famine -- The Fidelia -- Irish Famine refugees and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic Football Club -- Archaeological evidence of Irish migration? : rickets in the Irish community of London's East End, 184354 -- Black '47 and Toronto, Canada -- Gross Île, Quebec -- The Famine and New York City -- New York Famine memorial -- The Great Famine and Australia -- 'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus' : Ireland and Moreton Bay, 184852 -- VII. LEGACY -- Land reform in post-Famine Ireland -- Legacy and loss : the great silence and its aftermath -- Famine and the Irish diaspora -- VIII. REMEMBERING THE FAMINE -- The folklore of the Famine : Seanchas an Drochshaoil -- Na prátaí dubha -- Tadhg Ó Murchú (18421928) -- Sites of memory -- Famine memorial sites in County Cork -- 'Remembering, not forgetting', a commemorative composition -- The Big House and Famine memory : Strokestown Park House -- A Great Famine discovery of Viking Gold : Vesnoy,Strokestown, County Roscommon -- Mapping the Great Famine in Irish art -- Sculpting Famine -- Literature and the Famine -- IX. HUNGER AND FAMINE TODAY -- The Great Famine and today's famines -- Food security, food poverty, food sovereignty : moving beyond labels to a world of change? -- Images of famine : whose hunger? -- Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century.

9781859184790: £55.00 1859184790


European history
Ireland
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
History
Social & cultural history
Social impact of disasters


Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Maps.
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.

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