Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315513889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1546
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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.
Author: Gerard Moran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131551348X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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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. This volume examines how the failure of the potato crop in the late 1840s led to the mass exodus of 2.1 million people between 1845 and 1855. They left for destinations as close as Britain and as far as the United States, Canada and Australia, and heralded an era of mass migration which saw another 4.5 million leave for foreign destinations over the next half-century. How they left, how they settled in the host countries and their experiences with the local populations are as wide and varied as the numbers who left and, using extensive primary sources, this volume analyses and assesses this in the context of the emigrants themselves and in the new countries they moved.
Author: Thomas Colville Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Only recently discovered, this is a unique and valuable record, kept by Scott, a Scotsman sent by London life insurance employer to report on an estate about to go on sale - 200,000 acres of land north of Galway, Connemara. Called by Scott this inhabited desolation, his journal provides a first-hand account, with line drawings, by Scott, of the survivors of the famine in this area, of the thieving beggars and squalid hostelries, rent-evading tenants, and the works of the 'Papistry.' Robinson supplies very useful background material and history, as well as rich, explanatory notes and a map.
Author: Gerard Moran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846827211
Category : Connemara (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Between 1882 and 1884 the English philanthropist and Quaker, James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 poor and destitute people from Connemara and sent them to the United States and Canada. The aim was to rescue them from perennial starvation and famine, while at the same time improving the position of those who remained at home as they would have more land and receive remittances from the emigrants. [Subjects: Irish History; Nineteenth-Century History; Emigration; Philanthropy; Social History; Connemara; Great Irish Famine].
Author: James Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110834075X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.
Author: Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719040351
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.
Author: Catherine Flanagan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846827235
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book examines the effects of the Great Famine on the people of Kinsale and surrounding countryside. It shows how famine, death and disease took its toll on one class in particular - the poor. In early 1847, the Kinsale workhouse was hopelessly overcrowded, and the parish priest of Kinsale described members of his flock as starving creatures, worn, emaciated and feeble and in whose skeletal faces he could scarcely recognize a single feature. This precipitated a chain of social dislocation, emigration, disease and death. [Subjects: Irish History; Nineteenth-Century History; Social History: Great Irish Famine]
Author: Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846826436
Category : Cork (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book traces its rise, fall, and rise again in the early twentieth century when it was impressively, restored by Michael Flatley.
Author: Martin McCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846826108
Category : Juvenile delinquents
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial school at Kinsale, on the south coast of the county. They were committed on the grounds that they were found begging in the town on that day. The industrial school to which they were sent was run by the Mercy order of nuns, and the girls would remain there until they were sixteen years of age. Correspondence filed with their committal orders provides an insight into the circumstances under which they were committed. This short book examines the context of the case. It summarises the workings of the Irish industrial schools system in the 19th century as it related to the case of the two girls and examines the circumstances of the girls' family and the significance of the associated correspondence. It also describes Mallow town, its social structure in the 1890s - a time of great hardship for many - and the nature of the place to which the girls were sent, including the strict rules by which an industrial school was run. Industrial schools were strictly monitored by the government. The case of the girls illustrates a contemporary concern that bothered the authorities and the inspector of industrial schools. (Series: Maynooth Studies in Local History, Vol. 125) [Subject: 19th Century, Local & Institutional History, County Cork, Ireland]
Author: James S Donnelly
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752486934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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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.
