Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52
2012
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Áirithint áit ar Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52Subject: The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years 1845-1852 and at least one million and a quarter fled the country, the great majority to North America, some to Australia and a significant minority ((0.3 million) to British cities. Ireland had been afflicted by famine before the events of the 1840s; however the Great Famine is marked by both its absolute scale and its longevity. It is also better remembered because it was the most recent and best documented famine. This atlas comprising over fifty individual chapters and case studies will provide readers with a broad range of perspectives and relevant insights into this tragic event. The atlas begins by acknowledging the impossibility of adequately representing the Great Famine or any major world famine. Yet by exploring a number of themes from a reconstruction of pre-Famine Ireland onwards to an exploration of present-day modes of remembering; by the use of over 150 highly original computer generated parish maps of population decline, social transformation and other key themes between the census years 1841 and 1851: and through the use of poetry, contemporary paintings and accounts, illustrations and modern photography, what this atlas seeks to a achieve is a greater understanding of the event and its impact and legacy. This atlas seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands and thousands of people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits or in fields and ditches, with little or nothing to remind us of their going. The centrality of the Famine workhouse as a place of destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the atlas seeks to represent and understand the conditions and experiences of the many thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years. Included are case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York and Toronto. A central concern of the atlas is to seek to understand why a famine of this scale should occur in a nineteenth-century European country, albeit a country which was subject to imperial rule. In addition, it seeks to reveal in detail the working-out and varying consequences of the Famine across the island. To this end, apart from presenting an overall island-wide picture, Famine experiences and patterns will be presented separately for the four provinces. These provincial explorations will be accompanied by intimate case studies of conditions in particular localities across the provinces. The atlas also seeks to situate the Great Irish Famine in the context of a number of world famines. To achieve these goals and understandings, the atlas includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who are experts in their fields - from the arts, folklore, geography, history, archaeology, Irish and English languages and literatures.The great Irish famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history: in terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years of 1845 and 1852. This book provides readers with a broad range of perspectives and relevant insights into this tragic event.
Príomhtheideal:
Atlas of the great Irish famine, 1845-52 / editors, John Crowley, William I. Smyth and Mike Murphy.
Údar:
Inphrionta:
Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2012.
Leathanaigh in ord:
xvi, 710 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm
Nótaí:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lucht:
Irish interest.Cavan interest.Specialized.
Contents:
Section III : The Workhouse. The creation of the workhouse systemClassify, confine, discipline and punish - the Roscrea Union: A microgeography of the workhouse system during the FamineFamine and workhouse clothingThe Cork workhouseUlster workhouses: ideological geometry and conflictLurgan workhouse.Section IV: Population Decline And Social Transformations. Mortality and the Great Famine'Variations in vulnerability' : understanding where and why the people diedMedical relief and the Great Famine'Report upon the recent epidemic fever in Ireland':the evidence from County CorkEmigration to North America in the era of the Great famine,1845-55The cities and towns of Ireland,1841-51The roles of cities and towns during the Great FamineThe impact of the Great Famine on subsistent womenThe landed classes during the Great Famone"Turned out...thrown down': evictions in Bunkilla and Monavanshare, Donoughmore, County Cork.Connacht. Introduction: the province of Connacht and the Great FamineClifden Union, Connemara, County GalwayIn the shadow of Sliabh an IarainnMohill workhouse unionThe Famine in County RoscommonBallykilcline, County Roscommon.Leinster. Introduction: The province of Leinster and the Great FamineCounty Meath during the FamineBurying the Famine dead: Kilkenny Union workhouseKing's County during the Great Famine:' @poverty and plenty'The Smith estate of Baltyboys, County Wicklow-.Munster.Introduction:The province of Munster and the Great FamineMortality and emigration in six parishes in the Union of Skibbereen, West Cork, 1846-47--From 'Famine roads' to 'mannor walls': the famine in Glenville, County Cork--The Famine in the County Tipperary parish of Shanrahan--The Famine in the Dingle Peninsula--Famine relief in Cove and the Great Island, April 1846-March 1847--Visit of Queen Victoria to Cove, August 1849--Ulster. Introduction: The province of Ulster and the Great FamineThe Great Famine and religious demography in mid-nineteenth-century UlsterThe Great Hunger in Belfast--Mapping the Famine in MonaghanThe management of Famine in Donegal in the Hungry Forties.Section V: Witnessing The Famine. The Great Famine in Gaelic manuscriptsThe Artist as Witness:James MahonyAsenath Nicholson's irish journeysThomas Carlyle and famine Ireland'Le pays classique de la faim': France and the Great Irish FamineSection VI: The Scattering. Exodus from Ireland-patterns of emigrationLiverpool and the Great Irish FamineThe FideliaIrish Famine refugees and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic Football club --Archaeological evidence of Irish migration? Rickets in the Irish community of London's East End, 1843-54Black '47 and Toronto, CanadaGross ILe,QuebecThe Famine and New York CityNew York Famine memorialThe Great Famine and Australia'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus': Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848-52.Section VII: Legacy. Land reform in post-Famine IrelandLegacy and loss: the Great Silence and its aftermathFamine and the Irish disapora.Section VIII: Remebering the Famine. The Folklore of the Famine: Seanchas an DrochshaoilNa Prátaí DubhaTadhg Ó Murchú (1842-1928)Sites of memoryFamine memorial sits in County Cork"Remembering, not forgetting', a commemorative compositionThe Big House and Famine memory: Strokestown Park HouseA Great Famine Discovery of Viking Gold: Vesnoy, Strokestown, County Roscommon --Mapping the Great Famine in Irish ArtSculpting FamineLiterature and the Famine.Section IX: Hunger And Famine Today. The Great Famine and today's faminesFood security, food poverty, food sovereignty: moving beyond lables to a world of change?Images of famine: Whose hunger? --Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century.Cavan references: An account from Miss Mary Kettle of Cohaw, Cootehill of a young girl's death from hunger and cold (p.8)Mortality rates in South Ulster including Cavan and Bailieborough Unions recorded at over 15%Death rate in 1848 of 23.7%, above national average of 15.4% (p.114)Pawning their best clothing: Cavan and particularly Cootehill reported as most destitute (p.146)Photograph of Bawnboy Workhouse (p.161)Disappearance of farming families (p-.185)Population decline (p.196)Returns from medical officers of fever hospitals: poor condtions in Belturbet (p.200)Farming: 5% of Ulster's potato land was held in conacre in 1845, this figure was 12.3% in Cavan (p.419)Kilnaleck: suffering of the inhabitants (p.422)Drung eviction in 1848 (p.423)Cavan as leading emigration county, with 17.8% of Ulster's emigration totalMortality levels in Cavan greater in 1849 than in 1848 (p.425)Eviction levels: rate of 1.9% in Cavan (p.502)Mortaility and Emigration: Cavan experienced very high levels of emigration and less dramatic famine mortalities (p.502)Captain Somerset Maxwell (Farnham) led the Boycott Relief Expedition in 1880 which was organised to save Captain Boycott's crops (p.573).Section 1: Ireland before and after the Great Famine. The tragedy of the Great Famine (W. J. Smyth)Mapping the people: the growth and distribution of the population / W. J. Smyth --1741 Famine / David DicksonThe Potato root of the Famine / John FeehanThe Failure of the potato: Baunreagh, Co. Laois / John FeehanPre-Famine diet / Regina Sexton.Section II: The Great Hunger. The longue duree: imperial Britain and colonial Ireland / W. J. SmythThe colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine / David NallyBritish relief measures / Peter GrayThe Operation of the Poor Law during the Famine / Christine KinealyQueen Victoria and the Great Irish Famine / Christine KinealyBurying and resurrecting the past: the Queen Victoria statue in UCC / John CrowleyThe largest amount of good: Quaker relief efforts / Helen HattonBorn astride of a grave: The geography of the dead / W.J. Smyth.
ISBN:
9781859184790 (hbk)
Rangúchán Dewey:
941.5081941.5081941.58 Reading Room941.508122941.5081 REF941.5 Rolling Shelves941941.50812
I dteanga:
English
Réimse:
Local history -- KerryKerry -- Local historyKerry kohaKerry (Ireland) -- History, LocalIreland -- History -- 1845-1852, Famine era -- MapsIreland -- History -- 1845-1852, Famine era -- AtlasesCavan -- AgricultureCavan -- History -- 1845-1849 -- FamineIreland -- History -- 1845-1851 -- FamineCavan -- History -- 1845-1849 -- Famine -- MapsCavan -- Immigration and emigrationCavan -- Poor Law UnionsCavan -- Poor Law Unions -- BawnboyIreland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- MapsIreland -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryIrish -- Migrations -- History -- 19th centuryHistoryIreland19th century, c 1800 to c 1899European historyHistorySocial & cultural history
BRN:
1105930
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