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List of contents
Part 1. 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, Preface and Letter VIII (1845) 3. Reports of Messrs. Kane, Lindley and Playfair, Commissioners, On the Potatoe [sic] Disease (1845) Part 2. The Potato Blight Examined 4. Mansion House Committee, 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 3. Appeals, Prays and Philanthropy 6. Dr John Edgar, A Cry for Connaught (October 1846). 7. Queen Victoria, The Queen’s Letter for Ireland (January 1847). 8. Bishop John Hughes, A Lecture on the Antecedent Causes of the Irish Famine in 1847 (New York, March 1847). Part 4. 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 5. 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 (April 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 6. Reflections and Regrets 13. W. R. Wilde, Irish Popular Superstitions: Preface and pages 9-12, 72-75 (1852). 14. S. Reynolds Hole, A Little Tour in Ireland by an Oxonian, Chapter V (1859). 15. John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland. Chapter xxiv (Dublin: Irishman Office, 1861). Part 7. A Poetic Ending 16. George Francis Train, Epigram on Three cheers for the Famine in George Francis Train, The People’s Candidate for President, 1872 (1872).
About the author
Professor Christine Kinealy, is the Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA. Professor Kinealy has published extensively on nineteenth-century Irish history.
Dr Gerard Moran, European School Brussels. Dr Moran is author of many books and articles on Emigratin from Ireland.
Dr Jason King, Moore Institute, Galway University. Dr King has published extensively on Irish emigration to Canada.
Summary
These volumes will make available, for the first time, original documentation of the narratives of those who perished, survived and emigrated the Great Irish Famine. Comprehensive editorial apparatus wil accompany the original texts along with appendices that point the way for further study.
