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1 online resource (433 pages) |
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Part 1. The Crises of the Late 1720s. -- 1. The Letters of Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh (1727-1729) Four letters by Hugh Boulter from, Letters written by His Excellency Hugh Boulter, D.D., Lord Primate of all Ireland, &c.to several ministers of state in England, and some others: containing an account of the most interesting transactions which passed in Ireland from 1724 to 1738, second volume (Dublin; G. Faulkner and J. Williams, 1770) -- Part 2. The Famine of 1740 to 1741. The Year of Slaughter. -- 2. Reports from English newspapers. 3. Anon, -- The Groans of Ireland: in a letter to a Member of Parliament -- (Dublin: George Faulkner, 1741) -- Part 3. The Famine of 1816 and 1817. -- 4. Distilleries Scarcity of Provisions in Ireland in Hansard --, House of Commons Debates, 10 March 1817, vol. 35 cc. 917-20. 5. Distilleries, Hansard, House of Lords Debates, 14 March 1817, vol. 35, cc. 1079-80. -- Part 4. The Famine of 1822. British and Irish Philanthropy (1822 and 1823) -- 6. Scarcity of Provisions in Ireland, Hansard, House of Commons Debates, 29 April 1822, vol. 7 cc. 146-50. 7. Reports from various newspapers. Extracts from The First Report of the British and Irish Ladies Society, for improving the Condition and promoting the Industry and Welfare of the Female Peasantry of Ireland, reprinted in the Connaught Journal, 27 November 1823 Extracts from the Ladies Correspondence on the Clothing sent to Ireland (from: Report of the Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Districts in Ireland: appointed at a general meeting held at the City of London Tavern, on the 7th of May, 1822, with an appendix) -- Part 5. Famine in the 1830s. -- 8. Famine in a Fertile Land; Reports in the Newspapers (1831) -- Part 6. The Crises of the 1860s. -- 9. Henry Coulter, The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition and Prospects (Dublin: Hodges & Smith and London: Hurst & Blackett, 1862), pp. 21-37. 10. The Famine from Parliamentary Papers (1862): Question and Explanation, Hansard, House of Common Debates, 14 February 1862, vol. 165, cc. 267-70. Distress in Ireland, Hansard, House of Commons Debates, 21 February 1862, vol. 165, cc. 548-92. Irish Distress Observations, -- Hansard, House of Commons Debates, 2 May 1862, vol. 166, cc. 1134-83. 11. Reports of the Mansion-House Committee for the Relief of Distress in Ireland, 1862; and of the Central Relief Committee, 1862-1863 (Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1862) -- Part 7. Distress in the West in 1867 and 1869. -- 12. Correspondence from the Clifden Poor Law Guardians (Galway County Library, Clifden Poor Law Minute Book, week ending 18 May 1867) 13. The Irish Times Commissioners report from Connemara and west Mayo, September 1869, stating the condition of the peasantry, Irish Times --, 29 September 1869. -- Part 8. The Forgotten Famine, 1879-81 -- 14. Petition from the Claremorris Board of Guardians to the Lord Lieutenant (Freemans Journal --, 4 October 1879) 15. Letter from Maurice Brooks, M.P. on the distress and suggesting measures such as the provision of houses for farmers and labourers, to counteract it, -- Freemans Journal, 4 October 1879. 16. In the West, Nation, 1 November 1879. 17. Declaration of the Catholic hierarchy calling on the government to introduce relief measures, other than the Poor Law, to save the people, Freemans Journal, 29 October 1879. 18. Letter of Patrick Greally, outlining the level of distress in his parish, and advocating emigration as the panacea to the perennial destitution of the people, -- Nation --, 10 January 1880. 19. John Donovan to Edward McCabe (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, Secular priests, 3 January 1880) 20. Speech by Rev. Patrick Coyne, Catholic Administrator of the parish of Killanin, who chaired the local Land League meeting in November 1879, highlighting conditions in the parish, Nation, 22 November 1879. 21. Report of distress in the parish of Geesala, Co. Mayo from Rev. Patrick McHugh, C.C., the local priest, to E. Dwyer Gray, Lord Mayor of Dublin (Dublin City Archives, Mansion House Relief Committee Papers, 1880; ch/1/15/1) 22. Vere Fosters letter to Charles Stewart Parnell (P.R.O.N.I., Vere Foster Papers, 10 January 1880) 23. Letter from Bishop Francis MacCormack to E.D. Dwyer Gray, Lord Mayor of Dublin (Dublin City Archives, Mansion House Relief Committee Papers, ch/1/10/g142, 27 January 1880) 24. Report from the Glenties Poor Law Union, Co. Donegal, James H. Tuke, Irish Distress and its Remedies. The Land Question: A Visit to Donegal and Connaught in the Spring of 1880 (London: W. Ridgeway, 1880), pp. 9-24. 25. Bishop James Donnelly of Clogher to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress, 1879-8, 17 February 1880) 26. James Redpath, to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin inquiring into the state of destitution and famine in the country (Dublin Diocesan Archives, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress Papers, 15 March 1880) 27. Resolutions of the Charitable Irish Society in Boston (Minutes of Massachusetts Historical Society, Charitable Irish Society Papers, 17 March 1880) 28. Evidence of Rev. Canon Timothy Brosnan of Caherciveen, Co. Kerry (Report of Her Majestys Commissioners of Inquiry into the Working of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870, and the Acts Amending the Same, iii, HC 1881 xix (c 2779 ii), pp. 793-797) 29. Bishop John McDonald of Aberdeen to Archbishop Edward McCabe of Dublin (Dublin Diocesan Archive, McCabe Papers, Relief of Distress Papers, 26 February 1880) 30. Second Report of Mr. J.A. Fox, in J.A. Fox, Reports on the Condition of the Peasantry of the County of Mayo during the Famine Crisis of 1880 (Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1880), pp. 24-38. 31. Report from Swineford, Co. Mayo from representative of the Mansion House Relief Committee, July 1880. Report of Dr. George Sigerson and Dr. Kenny on the Fever in the Western Districts (Dublin City Archives, Mansion House Relief Committee Papers, CH1/4/p. 34, July 1880) 32. Outbreak of Fever, Connaught Telegraph, 26 June 1880. 33. Report from Captain Digby Morant on the distribution of relief on the West Coast of Ireland, August 1880, in Reference to Relief of Distressed Population on the West Coast of Ireland (H.C. 1880, lxii, 195, pp. 1-5) 34. Report of the Joint Committee, selected from the Committee of the Duchess of Marlborough Relief Fund and the Dublin Mansion House Fund for the Relief of Distress in Ireland, to administer the sum of 100,000 Dollars, voted by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, towards the Relief of Distress in Ireland (H.C. 1881, 326, lxxv), pp. 3-4. 35. Letter from the Parish Priest of Enniscrone, Co. Sligo on the girls assisted to emigrate to North America under the Vere Foster scheme (Second Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Land Law (Ireland); together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, HC 1882 (379) xi) 36. Illustration of the vessel the Nestorian which carried 650 of the Tuke emigrants and how the scheme was seen by people in North America. The illustration indicates paupers and the workhouse on a boat arriving into Boston. Harpers Weekly, 28 (Apr.) April 1883. 37. Fanny Parnells, Hold the Harvest (1880) and The Hovels of Ireland (1880) -- Part 9. The Crises of the 1880s and 1890s -- 38. MEMORANDA of STATEMENT made to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by the Catholic Prelates of Connaught, relative to the Destitution in their respective Dioceses (Connaught Telegraph, 9 January 1883) 39. Report from December 1885 on how Irish servant girls in Boston remit money back to Ireland to help their families (Boston Daily Globe, 14 December 1885) 40. The recollections from Henry Robinson of the government response to the crisis of 1885-1886. Henry Robinson, Memories: Wise and Otherwise (London: Cassell and Co., 1923) 41. Evidence of Rev. T. Flannery of Clifden to the Poor Relief (Ireland) Inquiry on the 13 December 1886, outlining the level of distress in his parish and the public works that were put in place to counteract the destitution (Poor Relief (Ireland) Inquiry Commission: Report and Evidence, and Appendices, H.C. 1887, C-5403), pp. 145-146. 42. Report of the distress and problems with the potato crop in the Partry area of Co. Mayo from the meeting of the Ballinrobe Board of Guardians. (Connaught Telegraph, 17 Apr. 1886) 43. Memorial to the Right Honourable the Chief Secretary, from the Mt. Partry and Maumtrasna Districts, calling for Relief Works. 44. Achill and West of Ireland Seed-Fund in J.H. Tuke, Reports and Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Committee of Mr. Tukes Fund, For assisting Emigration from Ireland, during the years 1882, 1883, and 1884. Also Report on Distribution of Seed Potatoes in Achill and West of Ireland, in 1886, with suggestions for Permanent Relief; and Letters from Donegal and reports of Success of Emigrants, -- 1889 (London, 1889), pp. 1-15 45. Letter from Rev. Michael Mahony telling how the Tuke emigrants from Connemara were progressing well in Minnesota. Reports and Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Committee of Mr. Tukes Fund, For assisting Emigration from Ireland, during the years 1882, 1883, and 1884. Also Report on Distribution of Seed Potatoes in Achill and West of Ireland, in 1886, with suggestions for Permanent Relief; and Letters from Donegal and reports of Success of Emigrants, 1889 (London, 1889) 46. Letter of James Hack Tuke to the London Times in 1889 suggesting investment in railway construction in Donegal (Times, 28 May, 1889) 47. Famine, from A Servant of the Queen by Maud Gonne MacBride (London: Victor Gollancz, 1938) 48. Maud Gonne, THE FAMINE QUEEN (United Irishman, 7 April 1900) |
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The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government's culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. This volume breaks new ground in bringing together foundational narratives of one of Europe and North America's first refugee crises -- making visible their impact in shaping perceptions, public opinion, and patterns of memorialization of Irish forced migration. It documents eyewitness impressions of suffering Irish emigrants, and especially orphaned infants, which became iconic images of the Famine migration |
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century.
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Emigration.
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Famine.
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Irish History.
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Nineteenth Century History.
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Social History.
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Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Sources
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Ireland
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History
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