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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52

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I. IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT FAMINE
The story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845{u2013}52 : a geographical perspective
'Mapping the people' : the growth and distribution of the population
1740{u2013}41 Famine
The potato : root of the Famine
Baunreagh, County Laois : The failure of the potato
Diet in pre-Famine Ireland
II. THE GREAT HUNGER
The longue durée - imperial Britain and colonial Ireland
The colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine
British relief measures
Charles Trevelyan
The operation of the poor law during the Famine
Queen Victoria and the Great Famine
Burying and resurrecting the past : the Queen Victoria statue in University College Cork
The largest amount of good : Quaker relief efforts
'Born astride a grave' : The geography of the dead
III. THE WORKHOUSE
The creation of the workhouse system
Classify, confine, discipline and punish - the Roscrea Union : a microgeography of the workhouse system during the Famine
Famine and workhouse clothing
The Cork workhouse
Ulster workhouses - ideological geometry and conflict
Lurgan workhouse
IV. POPULATION DECLINE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Mortality and the Great Famine
'Variations in vulnerability' : understanding where and why people died
Medical relief and the Great Famine
'Report upon the recent epidemic fever in Ireland' : the evidence from County Cork
Emigration to North America in the era of the Great Famine, 1845{u2013}55
The cities and towns of Ireland, 1841{u2013}51
The roles of cities and towns during the Great Famine
The impact of the Great Famine on subsistent women
The landed classes during the Great Irish Famine
'Turned out ... thrown down' : evictions in Bunkilla and Monavanshare, Donoughmore,County Cork
CONNACHT
Introduction : the province of Connacht and the Great Famine
Clifden Union, Connemara, County Galway
In the shadow of Sliabh an Iarainn
Mohill workhouse Union
The Famine in County Roscommon
Ballykilcline, County Roscommon
LEINSTER
Introduction : the province of Leinster and the Great Famine
County Meath during the Famine
Burying the Famine dead : Kilkenny Union workhouse
King'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 Famine
Mortality and emigration in six parishes in the Union of Skibbereen, West Cork, 1846{u2013}47
From 'famine roads' to 'manor 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 Famine
The Great Famine and religious demography in midnineteenth-century Ulster
The Great Hunger in Belfast
Mapping the Famine in Monaghan
The management of famine in Donegal in the hungry forties
V. WITNESSING THE FAMINE
The Great Famine in Gaelic manuscripts
The artist as witness : James Mahony
Asenath Nicholson{u2019}s Irish journeys
Thomas Carlyle and Famine Ireland
'Le pays classique de la faim' : France and the Great Irish Famine
VI. THE SCATTERING
Exodus from Ireland - patterns of emigration
Liverpool and the Great Irish Famine
The Fidelia
Irish 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{u2013}54
Black '47 and Toronto, Canada
Gross Île, Quebec
The Famine and New York City
New York Famine memorial
The Great Famine and Australia
'Week after week, the eviction and the exodus' : Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848{u2013}52
VII. LEGACY
Land reform in post-Famine Ireland
Legacy and loss : the great silence and its aftermath
Famine and the Irish diaspora
VIII. REMEMBERING THE FAMINE
The folklore of the Famine : Seanchas an Drochshaoil
Na prátaí dubha
Tadhg Ó Murchú (1842{u2013}1928)
Sites of memory
Famine memorial sites in County Cork
'Remembering, not forgetting', a commemorative composition
The Big House and Famine memory : Strokestown Park House
A Great Famine discovery of Viking Gold : Vesnoy,Strokestown, County Roscommon
Mapping the Great Famine in Irish art
Sculpting Famine
Literature and the Famine
IX. HUNGER AND FAMINE TODAY
The Great Famine and today's famines
Food security, food poverty, food sovereignty : moving beyond labels to a world of change?
Images of famine : whose hunger?
Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century.

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