The Great Irish Famine

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Chronology of the Great Famine, 1845 to 1852 The Great Famine revisited: general introduction Part I Poverty and perspectives: Ireland before 1845 1 George Nicholls Esq., Poor Laws – Ireland. Three reports by George Nicholls, Esq., to her Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for the Home Department (British Parliamentary Papers, 1836–1838) 2 Lydia Jane Fisher, Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry in the year 1845. Letter VIII (1847) 3 Reports of Messrs. Kane, Lindley and Playfair, Commissioners, On the potatoe [sic] disease (1845) Part II The potato blight examined 4 Reports of the Mansion House Committee on the potato disease in 1845 (1846) 5 Alfred Smee, On the cause of the potato disease: Aphis vastator (1846, 1847 and 1878) Part III Appeals, prays and philanthropy 6 Dr John Edgar, An appeal in Belfast for the people of Connaught (October 1846) 7 The Queen’s Letter for Ireland (January 1847) and consequent parliamentary questions 8 Bishop Hughes, A lecture on the antecedent causes of the Irish Famine in 1847 (New York, March 1847) Part IV Visitors to Ireland 9 Elihu Burritt, A journal of a visit of three days to Skibbereen, and its neighbourhood (February 1847) 10 William Bennett, Six weeks in Ireland (March and April 1847) Part V Official response and reaction 11 Isaac Butt, A voice for Ireland, the Famine in the land. What has been done and what is to be done (1847) 12 Charles E. Trevelyan, The Irish crisis: being a narrative of the measures for the relief of the distress caused by the Great Irish Famine of 1846–7 (January 1848) Part VI Reflections and regrets 13 W. R. Wilde, Irish popular superstitions (1852) 14 S. Reynolds Hole, A little tour in Ireland by an Oxonian, Chapter V (1859) 15 John Mitchel, The last conquest of Ireland, perhaps. Chapter xxiv (1861) Part VII A poetic ending 16 George Francis Train, Three cheers for the Famine (1872) Bibliography Keywords