Select Bibliography of Famine Studies

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P Q R S T U V Y

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  • Bourke, Austin, The Visitation of God?: The Potato and the Great Irish Famine, ed. Jacqueline Hill and Cormac O Gráda (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1993), 230pp.
  • Bradshaw, Brendan, ‘Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland’, in Irish Historical Studies (Nov. 1989).
  • Browne, Raymond, The destitution Survey: Reflectiosn on the Famine in the Diocese of Elphin (Author 1998) [based on booklet of 1847].

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  • Campbell, Stephen, J., The Great Irish Famine: Words and Images form the Famine Museum, Strokstown Park, Count Roscommon (Strokestown 1994).
  • Cathaoir, Brendan, Famine Diary (Dublin IAP 2001), 224pp. [pb. edn.]
  • Crawford, E. Margaret, ed., The Hungry Stream: Essays in Emigration and Famine (Belfast: The Centre for Emigration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park/Institute of Irish Studies 1997)

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  • Daly, Mary, The Famine in Ireland (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press 1986).
  • Donnelly, James S., ‘The Great Famine: Its Interpreters, Old and New’, in History Ireland, Vol. I, No. 3 (1995), pp.27-33.
  • Donnelly, James S. [chap. on the Famine], in W. E. Vaughan, A New History of Ireland, Vol. 5.
  • Donnelly, James S., Jr., The Great Irish Potato Famine (Thrupp, Glouc.: Sutton Publ. 2001), q.pp.

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  • Edwards, R. Dudley, & T. Desmond Williams, ed. The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History, 1845-52 (Dublin:Browne & Nolan 1956), 517pp.; and Do. [facs. rep.] with intro. & add. bibl. by Cormac Ó Gráda, (Dublin: Lilliput 1995), 555pp.
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    Fegan, Melissa, Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 (OUP 2002), 281pp.
  • Fegan, Melissa, ‘The Traveller's Experience of Famine Ireland', in Irish Studies Review 9, 3 (2001), pp.361-371.

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  • Gray, Breandán, Famine, Land and Politics: British government and Irish society 1843-50 (Blackrock: Irish Academlc Press 1998), 366pp.
  • Gray, Peter, The Irish Famine [New Horizons] (London: Thames & Hudson 1995), 191pp.
  • Gray, Peter, Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50 (Dublin IAP 2001), 400pp.
    • H
  • Hamrock, Ivor, The Famine in Mayo 1845-1850: A Portrait from Contemporary Sources (Mayo Co. Council 1998), 81pp.
  • Hall, Spencer T., Life and Death in Ireland (Manchester: J. T. Parkes 1850).

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  • Keegan, Gerald, Famine Diary: Journey to the New World (Quebec, 1895; 1982; Wolfhound rep. 1990) [spurious].
  • Kennedy, Liam, ‘Why one millions starved: an open verdict’, in Irish Economic and Social History, 11 (1984), pp.91-7.
  • Kenny, Sean, The Hungry Earth (Dublin: Wolfhound 1995) [novel].
  • Kerr, Donal A., A Nation of Beggars: Priests, People and Politics in Famine Ireland 1846-1852 (Clarendon 1994), 370pp.
  • Kierse, Sean, The Famine Years in the Parish of Killaloe (q. details)
  • Killen, John, The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accoutns 1841-1851 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1997)
  • Kinealy, Christine, ‘Beyond Revisionism: Resassessing the great Famine’, in History Ireland, Vol. III, No. 4 (1995), 28-34.
  • Kinealy, Christine, This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (Gill & Macmillan 1995; rep. 2006), 472pp.
  • Kinealy, Christine, A Death-dealing Famin: The Great Hunger in Ireland (London: Pluto Press 1997), 200pp.
  • Kinealy, Christine, The Great Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (London: Palgrave 2001), 280pp.
  • Kinealy, Christine, & Gerard MacAtasney, The Hidden Famine: Poverty, Hunger and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50 (London: Pluto Press 2001), 254pp.
  • King, Carla, ed., Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (UCD Press 2001), 237pp.

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  • Litton, Helen, The Irish Famine: An Illustrated History (Wolfhound Press/Irish Books & Media 1995), 44pp.

    • M
  • MacAtasney, Gerard, with foreword by Christine Kinealy, "This Dreadful Visitation": The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown (Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publs. 1997), 126pp.
  • McCu[s]kar, Breege, Lowtherstown Workhouse (necarne Press 1998) [records of workhouse at Irvinestown, Co. Fermanagh].
  • McHugh, Roger, ‘The Famine in Irish Oral Tradition’, in Edwards and Williams, op. cit., pp.391-436.
  • Mokyr, Joel, Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850 (Allen & Unwin 1985).
  • Morash, Chris & Richard Hayes, eds., Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the Famine (Blackrock IAP 1996) [incl. essays by Donald Jordan, Mathew Stout, Laurence Geary; James Donnelly, Thomas Boylan, Timothy Foley, Margaret Kelleher, on Asenath Nicholson; Neil Buttimer, on Irish language sources; Sean Ryder, on the representation of the famine in The Nation; Charles E. Orser, ‘Can There Be an Archaeology of the great Famine?’, pp.77-89, on a projected dig in Strokestown; also Morash, ‘Literature, memory, atrocity’.]
  • Morash, Chris, ed., The Hungry Voice: The Poetry of the Irish Famine (IAP 1989), foreword Terence Brown
  • Morash, Chris, Writing the Irish Famine (Oxford: Clarendon 1995), 213pp.
  • Murphy, Ignatius, A People Starved: Life and Death in West Clare 1845-1851 (Irish Academic Press 1996)
  • Murphy, Ignatius, Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare, 1834-1845 (Blackrock IAP 1996), 105pp. [thesis dating from 1960s dealing with Kilfeartagh parish and town of Kilkee within it, where 7,000 souls lived before the Famine and survivors were evicted.].

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    Neal, Frank, Black ’47: Britain and the Famine Irish (St. Martin’s Press 1998), 310pp.
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  • Ó Grada, Cormac, An Drochshaol: Béaloideas agus Amhráin (Dublin: Coiscéim 1994)
  • Ó Grada, Cormac, see under Edwards, Robert Dudley [supra]
  • Ó Cathaoir, Breandán, Famine Diary (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1998), 120pp.
  • O’Rourke, Canon John, The Great Irish Famine (1874 [var. 1875]; 3rd ed. 1902; abrdg. Veritas 1992)
  • O’Sullivan, Patrick, The Meaning of the Famine [Irish Worldwide Ser.] (Leicester UP 1995), 240pp.

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  • Pórtéir, Cathal, The Great Irish Famine (Mercier 1995), 283pp. [contribs. by DAvis dickson, Laurence M. Geary, Patrick Hickey, Cormac Ó Gráda
    Solar, P. M., ‘Why Ireland Starved: A Critic Review of the Econometric Results’, in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 10 [also an essay in Crawford].

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  • Somerville, Alexander, Letters from Ireland during the Famine of 1847 [formerly in Manchester Guardian], ed. K. D. M. Snell (IAP 1994).

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  • Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends durig the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847 (Dulni 1852), 478pp.
  • Toibín, Colm, & Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Famine: A Documentary (Profile Books 2001), 222pp. [Toibín contribs. 34pp. essay].

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  • Wilde, Sir William, An Inquiry into the Time of the Introduction and the General Use of the Potato in Ireland, and Its Various Failures Since that Period (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1856), 19pp.
  • Williams, R. D., and T. D. Williams, The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845-52 (1956)
  • Woodham-Smith, Cecil, The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849 (1962; rep. Penguin 1991).

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