The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN-13: 9781554813773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Karen Sonnelitter

Opis

In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland's potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration. This document collection presents a broad selection of historical perspectives - a guide to greater understanding of the causes, the course, and the impact of the Famine.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Questions to Consider
• Part I: Conditions in Ireland before the Famine
• 1. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, (Dublin, 1729)
• 2. Thomas Prior, A List of the Absentees of Ireland, (Dublin, 1729)
• 3. The groans of Ireland, in a letter to a Member of Parliament, (Dublin, 1741)
• 4. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, (London, 1776)
• 5. Thomas Malthus, “Newenham and others on the state of Ireland,” Edinburgh Review, 1808.
• 6. J. Bellingham, Hints to Farmers on the Culture of Potatoes, (Newry, 1813)
• 7. Mr and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall, Ireland: Its scenery and characters, (London ,1841-3)
• 8. Reports of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of the Poorer Classes in Ireland, (1834-5).
• 9. Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, (London, 1846)
• 10. Mountifort Longfield, Lectures on Political Economy, (Dublin, 1834)
• Part II: Effects of the Blight
• 11. Newspaper Accounts of the Blight
• 12. Illustrated London News, “Condition of Ireland: Illustrations of the New Poor-Law,” 22 December 1849
• 13. William Bennet, Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, (London, 1847)
• 14. Alexander Somerville, The Whistler and the Plough with Letters from Ireland, (Manchester, 1852)
• 15. Lord Dufferin and G.G. Boyle, Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to Skibbereen (Oxford, 1847)
• 16. Newspaper coverage on Famine Diseases
• 17. Newspaper coverage on civil unrest
• Part III: Government Responses to the Famine
• 18. Instructions to Committees of Relief Districts, 28 February 1846
• 19. Speech by Earl Grey in the House of Lords, 23 March 1846
• 20. Sir Robert Peel, Memoirs by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, (London, 1857)
• 21. Speech by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons, 17 August 1846
• 22. Correspondence Explanatory of the Measures of Her Majesty’s Government (London, 1846)
• 23. Bill to Make Provision for the Punishment of Vagrants, 15 April 1847
• 24. C.E. Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis, (London, 1848)
• 25. Papers Relating to the Proceedings for the Relief of Distress (London, 1848)
• Part IV: Non-Government Responses to the Famine
• 26. Public Opinion in the Press
• 27. William Henry Smith, A Twelve Months’ Residence in Ireland, during the Famine and the Public Works, 1846 and 1847, (London, 1848)
• 28. James Tuke, A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847, (London, 1848)
• 29. Report of the British Association for the Relief of the Extreme Distress in Ireland and Scotland, (London, 1849)
• 30. Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849, (New York, 1882)
• 31. “The Famine in the Land-What Has Been Done, and What is to be Done,” Dublin University Magazine, 1847
• 32. The Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Distress in Ireland, Extracts from Correspondence, (Dublin, 1847).
• 33. Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends During the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847, (Dublin, 1852)
• 34. Reactions in the United States
• 35. John Hughes, A Lecture on the Antecedent Causes of the Famine, (New York, 1847)
• Part V: Effects of the Famine
• 36. William Steuart Trench, Realities of Irish Life, (London, 1868)
• 37. Newspaper Coverage of Evictions
• 38. Robert Whyte, Ocean Plague: Or, a Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel (Boston, 1848)
• 39. Papers Relative to Emigration to the British North American Provinces in North America, (London, 1847)
• 40. The Grey Nuns Accounts
• Part VI: Aftermath
• 41. William Wilde’s Report in the 1851 census
• 42. Mary Ann Sadlier, Bessy Conway; or the Irish Girl in America, (New York, 1861)
• 43. Anthony Trollope, Castle Richmond, (London, 1860)
• 44. John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland, (Dublin, 1861)