Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by.

The catastrophe of Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 is a major watershed in Irish history, with a decisive impact on many aspects of Irish demographic, economic, social and political history. During the peak years of the Famine at least 750,000 men, women, and children died from either starvation or disease.

The death-toll resulting from the Irish Famine makes it unique in modern European and, indeed, world history. Other national famines since 1800 (e.g. Somalia in the 1990s or Ethiopia in the 1980s) have, in comparison, been far less demographically lethal than the Great Famine in Ireland. Inevitable?

Haines states “Phytophthora Infestans (the potato blight), not Trevelyan, was the tyrant who brought death and suffering to Ireland on a scale never before witnessed.” She is correct in asserting that the cause of the Famine was undeniably due to the potato blight, however the distinction between the blight and the Famine is best surmised in John Mitchel’s famous phrase: “The Almighty.

These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural disaster, killing about one million people and prompting many hundreds of thousands more to emigrate. The subjects covered here include: trends.

The Great Famine - 150 Years of Remembrance This Web site covers a brief history of the famine in Ireland and the immigration of Irish to Canada. It was put up on the Web Solutions servers by the Irish Association of Manitoba, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine that killed one million and caused over two million.

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The Great Irish Famine (c. 1845-52) was marked by mass emigration that had a significant impact on the British mainland. This paper examines Henry Mayhew’s representation of Irish migration to London during the height of the famine in his ethnographic study, London Labour and the London Poor.Mayhew’s ambivalence to Irish migration speaks to the widespread fears within Britain of the spread.

In 5 libraries. These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural disaster, killing about one million people and prompting many hundreds of thousands more to emigrate. The subjects covered here.

These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural disaster, killing about one million.

The Great Famine of 1845-1850 is one of the most highly charged chapters of Irish history. Whatever lay behind and beneath the so-called “potato famine” that wracked Ireland 150 years ago—the viewpoints are many and often contentious—the Famine has moved to center stage. Following decades of limited, cautious, sometimes circumspect discussion, Irish voices are increasingly being heard.

Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays. by Cormac O Grada (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating. ISBN-13: 978-1904558576. ISBN-10: 1904558577. Why is ISBN important? ISBN. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. Scan an ISBN with your phone Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and.

Among her recent publications are Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1870 (Syracuse UP, 2017); The Great Famine and Social Class (Peter Lang, 2019), The Great Famine: Visual and Material Cultures (co-edited, Liverpool UP, 2018), Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (co-edited, Peter Lang, 2017); Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (co.