John Mitchel, Ulster and the Great Irish Famine /
This collection of essays offers diverse perspectives on the impact of the Great Famine in Ireland, with particular focus on the experience in the province of Ulster.
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Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland :
Irish Academic Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The women of Belfast and the Great Famine / Christine Kinealy
- 2. The demography of the famine in Ulster: a few unanswered questions, a few new sources / Cormac O'Grada
- 3. The famine Irish migration to Canada in 1847-8: assisted emigration, colonisation and the unpublished famine diaries of Stephen de Vere / Jason King
- 4. John Mitchel's town, its hinterland and the great famine / Anthony Russell
- 5. John Mitchel: famine, slavery, and agrarian politics / James Quinn
- 6. What can folklore tell us about the great famine that other documents cannot? / Cathal Poirteir
- 7. Rememberances of love and duty: famine remittances to Ireland during the 1840s / Ciaran Reilly
- 8. Different writers, different perspectives / Patrick Fitzgerald
- From a personal journey to national commemoration / Michael Blanch
- Mitchel and slavery: a biblical perspective / Revd Nigel Agnew
- Newry workhouse / Huigh McShane
- The Irish National Famine Museum: Strokestown Park / John O'Driscoll
- An Australian famine family.