The Hidden Famine: Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50
Author:   Prof. Christine Kinealy ,  Gerard Mac Atasney
Publisher:   Pluto Press
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9780745313764


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 September 2000
Format:   Hardback
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The Hidden Famine: Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50


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Author:   Prof. Christine Kinealy ,  Gerard Mac Atasney
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780745313764


ISBN 10:   0745313760
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The ‘Old’ Poor Law c. 1640-1845 1. Poverty before the Famine Part II. A National Crisis. c.1845-47 2. A Man-Made Famine 3. All the Horrors of Famine 4. An Droch-Shaol . Disease and Death in Black ‘47 Part III. A Divided Town 5. Public and Private Responses 6. Conflict and Rebellion. 7. The Crisis is Passed Aftermath Appendices Further Reading Index

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'This is an immensely interesting and important work; it covers historical ground which has largely been ignored by even the most eminent Famine historians and comprehensively explodes some of the most enduring myths surrounding the 1840s' -- Republican News 'Proving that Belfast also suffered the holocaust of the famine. Excellently documented account packed with tables, newspaper cuttings and appendices' -- Books Ireland 'One of the outstanding historians of modern Ireland' -- Irish Democrat


'[Kinealy is] one of the outstanding historians of modern Ireland.' --Irish Democrat


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Christine Kinealy is a lecturer in history at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the author of The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Roberts Reinhart, 1994) and The Hidden Famine (Pluto Press, 2000). She has written for History Ireland and the New York-based Irish Echo. Gerard Mac Atasney is an Irish historian based in Belfast who has written widely on the Great Famine in Ireland. He is the author of The Other Famine (The History Press, 2010) and The Hidden Famine (Pluto Press, 2000).

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