Great Irish Potato Famine

Name: Great Irish Potato Famine
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ISBN: 9780750929288

ISBN-10: 0750929286

ISBN-13: 9780750929288

Edition: 2002

Authors: James S. Donnelly

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This is an account of the great Irish potato famine of the late 1840s and early 1850s which resulted in the death of around one million people and lead to a mass exodus of some two million Irish citizens, mostly to North America.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: History Press Limited, The
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Famine and Government Response, 1845-6



Production, Prices, and Exports, 1846-51



The Administration of 'Relief', 1846-7



Soup Kitchens and Amending the Poor Law



The Amended Poor Law and Mass Death, 1847-51



Landlords and Tenants



Excess Mortality and Emigration



A Famine in Irish Politics



Constructing the Memory of the Famine, 1850-1900


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index