Irish famines before and after the Great hunger /
edited by Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran.
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| Format: | BOOK |
| Language: | English |
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Hamden, CT : [Cork] :
Quinnipiac University Press ;
[2020]
Cork University Press, |
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xxxviii, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm more |
| ISBN: | 0578484986 9780578484983 |
Table of Contents:
Introduction / Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran
EARLY FAMINES
Famine and Poverty in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland / Brendan Scott
"Such frequent wants and famines": Philanthropy and the Famine of 1739-41 / Karen Sonnelitter
A Modest Proposal: Jonathan Swift's Solution to famine / Peter Murphy
The "Vital Blood" of Irish Colonials in America and the Formation of the New Nation / Robert Smart
"A half-starved nation": Famine and Crime in Ireland in 1831 / Ciarán Reilly
CANADA
A FAMINE FRONTIER
"We Have Scattered Them Far and Wide": Transporting Indigent Irish Emigrants in the Canadas, 1843-1847 / Laura J. Smith
When Famine "Victims" Challenge Historians: The Case of the Strokestown "1,490" and the Assisted Migration of 1847 / Mark G. McGowan
In the Footsteps of Strokestown's Emigrants to Niagara: Transatlantic Press Coverage and Retribution for Major Denis Mahon's Coffin Ships / Jason King
"Connaught or Hell": The Rise and Fall of a Proposed New Ireland in the Canadian West,1880-1882 / Timothy S. Forest
POST 1852 : FORGOTTEN FAMINES
A Philanthropist's Response to the Famine of 1879-82 : James Hack Tuke and his Assisted Emigration Scheme / Gerard Moran
America's Errand of Mercy to Ireland / Harvey Strum
Boston and the Forgotten Famine of 1879-1882 / Catherine B. Shannon
The Connemaras: Despair in the Heartland / Jane Kennedy
Impact of the Tuke Emigration Scheme: From County Mayo to Cleveland / Margaret Lynch
The Real Famine Queen? Maud Gonne and Famines in the 1890s / Christine Kinealy
HUNGER AFTER 1900
"A Spectacle of our People in a Strange Land": Irish Women's Food Experiences in Scotland's Tattie-Hoking Fields in the 20th Century / E. Moore Quinn
Famine in Art: Imagery, Influences and Exhibition in Mid-20th-Century Ireland. Lilian Lucy Davidson and Muriel Brandt in the Centenary Commemoration of Thomas Davis and Young Ireland, 1946 / Niamh Ann Kelly
Hungry for Change: Civil Society Responses to Food Insecurity in 21st-Century New Haven, Connecticut / Mary P. Corcoran
MAKING HISTORY VISIBLE
The Irish Poverty Special Collection at the Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University / Robert A. Young, Jr.
Teaching the Great Irish Famine / Alan Singer.
Introduction / Christine Kinealy and Gerard Moran
EARLY FAMINES
Famine and Poverty in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland / Brendan Scott
"Such frequent wants and famines": Philanthropy and the Famine of 1739-41 / Karen Sonnelitter
A Modest Proposal: Jonathan Swift's Solution to famine / Peter Murphy
The "Vital Blood" of Irish Colonials in America and the Formation of the New Nation / Robert Smart
"A half-starved nation": Famine and Crime in Ireland in 1831 / Ciarán Reilly
CANADA
A FAMINE FRONTIER
"We Have Scattered Them Far and Wide": Transporting Indigent Irish Emigrants in the Canadas, 1843-1847 / Laura J. Smith
When Famine "Victims" Challenge Historians: The Case of the Strokestown "1,490" and the Assisted Migration of 1847 / Mark G. McGowan
In the Footsteps of Strokestown's Emigrants to Niagara: Transatlantic Press Coverage and Retribution for Major Denis Mahon's Coffin Ships / Jason King
"Connaught or Hell": The Rise and Fall of a Proposed New Ireland in the Canadian West,1880-1882 / Timothy S. Forest
POST 1852 : FORGOTTEN FAMINES
A Philanthropist's Response to the Famine of 1879-82 : James Hack Tuke and his Assisted Emigration Scheme / Gerard Moran
America's Errand of Mercy to Ireland / Harvey Strum
Boston and the Forgotten Famine of 1879-1882 / Catherine B. Shannon
The Connemaras: Despair in the Heartland / Jane Kennedy
Impact of the Tuke Emigration Scheme: From County Mayo to Cleveland / Margaret Lynch
The Real Famine Queen? Maud Gonne and Famines in the 1890s / Christine Kinealy
HUNGER AFTER 1900
"A Spectacle of our People in a Strange Land": Irish Women's Food Experiences in Scotland's Tattie-Hoking Fields in the 20th Century / E. Moore Quinn
Famine in Art: Imagery, Influences and Exhibition in Mid-20th-Century Ireland. Lilian Lucy Davidson and Muriel Brandt in the Centenary Commemoration of Thomas Davis and Young Ireland, 1946 / Niamh Ann Kelly
Hungry for Change: Civil Society Responses to Food Insecurity in 21st-Century New Haven, Connecticut / Mary P. Corcoran
MAKING HISTORY VISIBLE
The Irish Poverty Special Collection at the Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University / Robert A. Young, Jr.
Teaching the Great Irish Famine / Alan Singer.