Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Title | Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Kinealy |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1441133089 |
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Title | Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Kinealy |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 144111758X |
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Title | Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Kinealy |
Publisher | Cork University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN | 9780990468691 |
This publication explores the impact of the Famine on children and young adults. It examines the topic through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, history, visual representations, folklore and folk-memory.
Famine in European History
Title | Famine in European History PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Alfani |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107179939 |
The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Ireland's Great Hunger
Title | Ireland's Great Hunger PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Valone |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2009-12-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0761849009 |
The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.
The Great Famine
Title | The Great Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Ciarán Ó Murchadha |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2011-06-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1441187553 |
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.
The Great Irish Famine
Title | The Great Irish Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Cathal Poirteir |
Publisher | Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2023-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1781178607 |
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.