A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in IrelandPluto 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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A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland Christine Kinealy Visualització de fragments - 1997 |
A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland Christine Kinealy Previsualització no disponible - 1997 |
A Death-dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland Christine Kinealy Previsualització no disponible - 1997 |
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Act of Union areas became beginning of 1847 Belfast Britain British government British Relief Association Calamity Catholic Catholic Emancipation cent Christine Kinealy Clarendon consequence Cork Corn Laws crisis Daniel O'Connell Despite destitute disease distressed unions donations Dublin economic emigration England English especially evictions exports failure Famine relief food shortages George Poulett Scrope Gráda grain harvest History Ibid ideological impact increased increasingly industry intervention Irish Famine Irish landlords Irish Poor Law January labour land legislation London Lord John Russell Lord Lieutenant meant million mortality nationalist O'Connell outdoor relief Papers parliament Peel's Póirtéir political Poor Law Commissioners poor relief population potato blight potato crop poverty Protestant providing relief provision of relief Rate-in-Aid regarded Relief Commissioners relief committees relief measures relief policies repeal Report response revisionist role Roscommon Russell Scotland Skibbereen social society soup kitchens Soyer starvation suffering tenants Treasury Twistleton Ulster United Kingdom Whig government whilst workhouses
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The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882 Michael de Nie Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity Stuart John McLean Previsualització limitada - 2004 |