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Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 is an expansive history of the infamous Irish Potato Famine.
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed. ) by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed. ) written by John O'Rourke and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) By John O'Rourke The great Irish Famine, which reached its height in 1847, was, in many of its features, the most striking and most deplorable known to history. The deaths resulting from it, and the emigration which it caused, were so vast, that, at one time, it seemed as if America and the grave were about to absorb the whole population of this country between them. The cause of the calamity was almost as wonderful as the result. It arose from the failure of a root which, by degrees, had become the staple food of the whole working population: a root which, on its first introduction, was received by philanthropists and economists with joy, as a certain protection against that scarcity which sometimes resulted from short harvests. Mr. Buckland, a Somersetshire gentleman, sent in 1662 a letter to the Royal Society, recommending the planting of potatoes in all parts of the kingdom, to prevent famine, for which he received the thanks of that learned body; and Evelyn, the well-known author of "The Sylva," was requested to mention the proposal at the end of that work. The potato was first brought into this country about three centuries ago. Tradition and, to some extent, history attributes its introduction to Sir Walter Raleigh. Whether this was actually the case or not, there seems to be no doubt about his having cultivated it on that estate in Munster which was bestowed upon him by his royal mistress, after the overthrow of the Desmonds. Some confusion has arisen about the period at which the potato of Virginia, as I shall for the present call the potato, was brought to our shores, from the fact that another root, the batatas, or sweet potato, came into these islands, and was used as a delicacy before the potato of Virginia was known; and what adds to the confusion is, that the name potato, applied to the Virginian root, is derived from batatas, it not bearing in Virginia any name in the least resembling the word potato. Up to 1640 it was called in England the potato of Virginia, to distinguish it from the sweet potato, which is another evidence that it derived the name potato from batatas. The latter root was extensively cultivated for food in parts of America, but it never got into anything like general cultivation here, perhaps because our climate was too cold for it. It is now only found in our hot-houses, where it produces tubers from one to two pounds in weight. It has been asserted that Sir John Hawkins brought the potato to Ireland in 1565, and his kinsman Sir Francis Drake to England in 1585. Although this is not improbable, writers generally assume that it was the sweet potato which was introduced by those navigators. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis HISTORY OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE OF 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book HISTORY OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE OF 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black '47 and Beyond by : Cormac Ó Gráda
Download or read book Black '47 and Beyond written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine Of 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine Of 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847: With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines Other materials of great importance lay scattered over the Public Journals of the period; were buried and stowed away in Parliamentary Blue Books, and Parliamentary debates - were to be sought for in pamphlets, in periodi cals, and more especially in the Reports of the various Societies and Associations, which were appointed for dis peusing the alms given with such free hand, to aid in saving the lives of the famishing people. Those Records will be found quoted and referred to in the course of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis HISTORY OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE OF 1847 by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book HISTORY OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE OF 1847 written by John O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents by : Karen Sonnelitter
Download or read book The Great Irish Famine: A History in Documents written by Karen Sonnelitter and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1845, a mysterious blight ravaged Ireland’s potato harvest, beginning a prolonged period of starvation, suffering, and emigration that reduced the Irish population by as much as twenty-five per cent in a mere six years. The Famine profoundly impacted Ireland’s social and political history and altered its relationships with the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. This document collection provides a broad selection of historical perspectives depicting the causes, the course, and the impact of the Famine. Letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and other works are collected within, carefully described and annotated for the reader. A substantial introduction, a chronology of events, and a useful glossary are also included to aid in the interpretation of the primary texts.
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by : John O'Rourke
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines written by John O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed.) (1902) with Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by : O''Rourke John Canon
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd Ed.) (1902) with Notices of Earlier Irish Famines written by O''Rourke John Canon and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis The Great Irish Famine by : Cormac Ó'Gráda
Download or read book The Great Irish Famine written by Cormac Ó'Gráda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.
Book Synopsis The Great Irish Famine by : Canon John O'Rourke
Download or read book The Great Irish Famine written by Canon John O'Rourke and published by Veritas Books (IE). This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great Irish famine of the years 1845-49 finally ceased it had taken a toll of the Irish nation from which it has never fully recovered. More than 1.2 million people died as a result of hunger or disease. In six years, from 1846-1851, more than 1.8 million left the country. Those who were left in a stricken motherland were sunk in misery and despair. With the decimation and emigration of its users, the Irish language suffered a mortal blow. The nation seemed doomed to extinction. This definitive work is a vivid record of this catastrophe that almost wiped out the Irish nation. It also provides a history of previous famines in Ireland and gives a fascinating account of the arrival of the potato in Europe and its introduction to Ireland. Also discussed is the onslaught of the blight and the puny efforts by the London government to counter its effects.-- Publisher description
Book Synopsis The Great Famine by : Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Download or read book The Great Famine written by Ciarán Ó Murchadha and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.
Book Synopsis The Great Hunger by : Cecil Woodham-Smith
Download or read book The Great Hunger written by Cecil Woodham-Smith and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.
Book Synopsis The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by : John O'Rourke (Canon.)
Download or read book The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 written by John O'Rourke (Canon.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
