The Great Irish Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Irish Famine write by Cormac Ó'Gráda. This book was released on 1995-09-28. The Great Irish Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The End of Outrage
The End of Outrage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Outrage write by Breandán Mac Suibhne. This book was released on 2017-08-05. The End of Outrage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they represented themselves as 'Molly's Sons', sent by their mother, to carry out justice; on others, a man attired as a woman, introducing 'herself' as Molly Maguire, demanding redress for wrongs inflicted on her children. The raiders might stipulate the maximum price at which provisions were to be sold, warn against the eviction of tenants, or demand that an evicted family be reinstated to their holding. People who refused to meet their demands were often viciously beaten and, in some instances, killed -- offences that the Constabulary classified as 'outrages'. Catholic clergymen regularly denounced the Mollies and in 1853, the district was proclaimed under the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act. Yet the 'outrages' continued. Then, in 1856, Patrick McGlynn, a young schoolmaster, suddenly turned informer on the Mollies, precipitating dozens of arrests. Here, a history of McGlynn's informing, backlit by episodes over the previous two decades, sheds light on that wave of outrage, its origins and outcomes, the meaning and the memory of it. More specifically, it illuminates the end of 'outrage' -- the shifting objectives of those who engaged in it, and also how, after hunger faded and disease abated, tensions emerged in the Molly Maguires, when one element sought to curtail such activity, while another sought, unsuccessfully, to expand it. And in that contention, when the opportunities of post-Famine society were coming into view, one glimpses the end, or at least an ebbing, of outrage -- in the everyday sense of moral indignation -- at the fate of the rural poor. But, at heart, The End of Outrage is about contention among neighbours -- a family that rose from the ashes of a mode of living, those consumed in the conflagration, and those who lost much but not all. Ultimately, the concern is how the poor themselves came to terms with their loss: how their own outrage at what had been done unto them and their forbears lost malignancy, and eventually ended. The author being a native of the small community that is the focus of The End of Outrage makes it an extraordinarily intimate and absorbing history.
Ireland Before and After the Famine
Ireland Before and After the Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland Before and After the Famine write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 1993. Ireland Before and After the Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.
Women and the Family in Post-famine Ireland
Women and the Family in Post-famine Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Family in Post-famine Ireland write by Rita M. Rhodes. This book was released on 1992. Women and the Family in Post-famine Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the position of women within Irish society during the period 1850 to WWI, focusing on the rural Irish family. Reveals a high death, high levels of marital fertility, and a female-dominated migration pattern that is uniquely Irish. These demographic behaviors are interpreted as an expression of family values that by the end of the 19th century infuse Irish society. These values prize land and lineage and motivate family practices that result in a preferential treatment of sons over daughters. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure
Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure write by Desmond Keenan. This book was released on 2019-10-11. Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the social and economic conditions in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, that is after the Great Famine. Though the famine severely affected the under-developed parts of Ireland, it did not greatly affect the Irish economy as a whole . On the contrary, an ever-increasing output was now spread over a falling population. GDP per capita went on rising, and people had more money to spread. The Government, the economy, agricultural and industrial, the churches, the educational system, medicine, the arts, the music, and the sports are described.
