A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

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Pluto Press, 20 de març 1997 - 192 pàgines
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Great Hunger in Ireland. Ideologies and Interpretations -- 2 'A State of Degradation'. Pre-Famine Ireland -- The Political Background: Dispossession and Disunity -- Union and Discord -- The Pre-Famine Economy -- Poverty, Population and Poor Relief -- 3 Rotten Potatoes and the Politics of Relief -- Pre-Famine Famines -- Potatoes and the Coming of Blight -- Peel and the Politics of Repeal -- The Provision of Relief -- 4 Putrefying Vegetation and 'Queen's Pay' -- Party Politics and the Triumph of Ideology -- The 'Male' Roads and 'Queen's Pay' -- Food Supplies and Food Exports -- Food Shortages and Famine Elsewhere -- 5 'Black '47' -- The Crisis of Starvation -- Soup or Starvation? -- Private Philanthropy -- 6 'The Expatriation of a People' -- Property Supporting Poverty -- The Impact of Famine -- The Press and British Public Opinion -- 7 'A Policy of Extermination' -- The Prodigal Son -- 'An Army of Beggars'. The Rate-in-Aid Issue -- The Flight from Ireland: Emigration -- The Cost of the Famine -- Epilogue 'The Famine Killed Everything' -- Note on Further Reading -- Notes -- Index
 

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41
Putrefying Vegetation and Queens Pay
66
Food Supplies and Food Exports
77
Food Shortages and Famine Elsewhere
83
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118
A Policy of Extermination
135
Epilogue The Famine Killed Everything
151
Notes
158
Index
181
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Dr Christine Kinealy teaches history at the University of Central Lancashire and has also taught at the University of Liverpool and universities in Dublin and Belfast. She is the author of The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845–52 (Roberts Reinhart, 1994) and has written for History Ireland and the New York-based Irish Echo.

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