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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Volume 1 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Chronology of the Great Famine, 1845 to 1852 -- The Great Famine revisited: general introduction -- PART I Poverty and perspectives: Ireland before 1845 -- 1 George Nicholls Esq., Poor Laws -- Ireland. Three reports by George Nicholls, Esq., to her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department (British Parliamentary Papers, 1836-1838) -- 2 Lydia Jane Fisher, Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry in the year 1845. Letter VIII (1847) |
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3 Reports of Messrs. Kane, Lindley and Playfair, Commissioners, On the potatoe [sic] disease (1845) -- PART II The potato blight examined -- 4 Reports of the Mansion House Committee on the potato disease in 1845 (1846) -- 5 Alfred Smee, On the cause of the potato disease: Aphis vastator (1846, 1847 and 1878) -- PART III Appeals, prays and philanthropy -- 6 Dr John Edgar, An appeal in Belfast for the people of Connaught (October 1846) -- 7 The Queen's Letter for Ireland (January 1847) and consequent parliamentary questions |
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8 Bishop Hughes, A lecture on the antecedent causes of the Irish Famine in 1847 (New York, March 1847) -- PART IV Visitors to Ireland -- 9 Elihu Burritt, A journal of a visit of three days to Skibbereen, and its neighbourhood (February 1847) -- 10 William Bennett, Six weeks in Ireland (March and April 1847) -- PART V Official response and reaction -- 11 Isaac Butt, A voice for Ireland, the Famine in the land. What has been done and what is to be done (1847) |
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12 Charles E. Trevelyan, The Irish crisis: being a narrative of the measures for the relief of the distress caused by the Great Irish Famine of 1846-7 (January 1848) -- PART VI Reflections and regrets -- 13 W.R. Wilde, Irish popular superstitions (1852) -- 14 S. Reynolds Hole, A little tour in Ireland by an Oxonian, Chapter V (1859) -- 15 John Mitchel, The last conquest of Ireland, perhaps. Chapter xxiv (1861) -- PART VII A poetic ending -- 16 George Francis Train, Three cheers for the Famine (1872) -- Bibliography -- Keywords -- Volume 2 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page |
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Introduction -- PART I Irish Famine migration narratives -- 1 Stephen De Vere to T.F. Elliot, 30 November, 1847, Minutes of evidence before Select Committee on Colonisation from Ireland, British Parliamentary Papers, Emigration, v 5, pp. 45-48 -- 2 Stephen De Vere, unpublished 'America journals' 1847-1848 (Trinity College Dublin Manuscripts Department, MSS 5061-5062) -- 3 John Burke, 'Reminiscences', or 'Migration of seven brothers' (MS John Burke, 'Reminiscences', New York Historical Society Library, New York, 1891) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Sources
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| Subject |
Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kinealy, Christine, editor
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Moran, Gerard, editor
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King, Jason (Jason Francis), 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315513881 |
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1315513889 |
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9781315513874 |
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9781315513881 |
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9781315513867 |
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9781315513898 |
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1315513870 |
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1315513862 |
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1315513897 |
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9781315513874 |
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9781315513867 |
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9781315513898 |
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9781315513812 |
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1315513811 |
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