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The Great Hunger 
An Gorta Mór 

various links

encyclopedias on the topic

images

John Behan: "Arrival" - "Coffin Ship"

 

Various links

Black '47 - when Ireland starved (very detailed article with profound information on various aspects going along with the topic - and some good links as well): http://goireland.miningco.com/travel/goireland/library/weekly/aa120897.htm 

and part II: Far from Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore: http://goireland.about.com/travel/goireland/library/weekly/aa121597.htm 

and another one from the same good source: An Gorta Mór: The Great Hunger: http://goireland.about.com/travel/goireland/library/weekly/aa120197.htm 

Loads of detailed information (The Great Irish Famine curriculum): http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/irish_pf.html 
 

Collection of links: http://www.toad.net/~sticker/nosurrender/faminelink.html 

Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison: http://www.wisc.edu/history/famine/ 

The Famine, The Times and Donegal: http://www2.magmacom.com/~jward/famine.html 

The Irish Famine (Uni Texas): http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/history/famine.html 

Some interesting links: http://www.bennington.edu/users/students/jcats/patatofamine.html 


Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850: http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html 

The Famine Museum in Strokestown/Ireland: http://www.strokestownpark.ie/intro.html 

The Great Famine in County Mayo: http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/mayo/history/famine.htm 

Boston Irish Famine Memorial: http://www.boston.com/famine/purpose.stm 

Living with the ghosts of the Potato Famine (article Detroit News 1995): http://detnews.com/menu/stories/13997.htm 

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/famine.html

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws95/famine45.html (Workers Solidarity 1995)

http://www.ireland.org/irl_hist/hist45.htm

http://www.toad.net/~sticker/nosurrender/PotatCom.html

British should apologize for Famine (Ahern): http://www.iol.ie/resource/ip/noi/oct11-95/famine.htm

THE GREAT STARVATION 
AND BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN IRELAND (article, Univ. Toledo/USA): http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/iphunger.html  (from The Irish People
Jan. 10, 1996)

Hunger - a series of poems: http://expo.nua.ie/wordsmith/MaighreadMedbh/index.html 

 

http://www.irishfaminefund.ie/pages/family.htmThe Famine Memorial, a life-size
bronze group sculpture on Dublin's Custom House Quay, pays tribute to Ireland's heritage and remembers those who left.

 

 

 

More about the memorial in Dublin

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely worth seeing: John Behan: "Arrival" - "Coffin Ship"

 

What the (multimedia) encyclopedias say:

The Irish famine

During the 17th and 18th centuries the potato was the staple diet of the Irish peasantry. In 1846 the potato crop failed, and this was followed by a famine that was to last until 1851, during which tens of thousands died. About this time Ireland also began to feel US competition in the corn market. Great Britain adopted free trade, and Ireland , with the loss of protection for its wheat, soon found it impossible to compete with the USA. Many smallholders were evicted by the land owners, and about 1.5 million people emigrated to the USA and Canada. Between 1864 and 1914 agriculture in Ireland changed from being primarily arable to being primarily pastoral.

and:

potato famine 

Famine in Ireland 1845 - 48 caused by the failure of the potato crop, the staple of the Irish diet. Nearly a million people died from malnutrition - related diseases such as a cholera, dysentery and typhus and at least the same number again emigrated, mainly to America. The former Irish population of 8 million had thus fallen by at least 2 million. The famine devastated Ireland for many years after. The British government was slow to provide relief and provoked Irish hostility in consequence

from: The Hutchinson Educational Encyclopedia 2000

From 1845 to 1847 rent-racked Ireland suffered a disastrous famine resulting from the failure of the potato crop. Again large numbers of people emigrated, especially to America; it has been estimated that by the end of 1848, through emigration and deaths resulting from famine, the population of Ireland decreased by more than 2 million people.

from: Encarta Encyclopedia

Irish Potato Famine
1845-49, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845-49 when the
potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures
were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the
leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. The
causative agent of late blight is the fungus Phytophthora
infestans.

from: http://www.eb.co.uk (= Encyclopedia Britannica online)

 

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