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Title	The great Irish famine / edited by Cathal Póirtéir.
Publication Info.	Chester Springs, Pa. : Dufour Editions, c1997.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	941.5 G	IN LIBRARY

Description	283 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Series	Thomas Davis lecture series
Note	Originally published: Dublin : Mercier Press, 1995.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283).
Contents	Pre and post-famine landscape change / Kevin Whelan -- Great famine and Irish politics / S. J. Connolly -- Other great Irish famine / David Dickson -- Food and famine / E. Margaret Crawford -- Famine, fever and the bloody flux / Laurence M. Geary -- Ideology and the famine / Peter Gray -- Role of the poor law during the famine / Christine Kinealy -- Operations of famine relief, 1845-57 / Mary E. Daly -- Stigma of Souperism / Irene Whelan -- Mass eviction and the great famine / James S. Donnelly, Jr. --
	Flight from famine / David Fitzpatrick -- Famine in the Skibbereen union (1845-51) / Patrick Hickey, c.c. -- Persistence of famine in Ireland / Tim P. O'Neill -- Folk memory and the famine / Cathal Póirtéir -- Irish famine in literature / Margaret Kelleher -- Great famine and today's famines / Cormac Ó Gráda.
Subject	Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
	Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
	Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901.
Added Author	Póirtéir, Cathal.
ISBN	0802313167 (pbk.)

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