A Death-Dealing Famine The Great Hunger in Ireland

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Great Hunger in Ireland. Ideologies and Interpretations -- 2 'A State of Degradation'. Pre-Famine Ireland -- The Political Background: Dispossession and Disunity -- Union and Discord -- The Pre-Famine Economy -- Poverty, Population and Poor Relief -- 3 Rotten Potatoes and the Politics of Relief -- Pre-Famine Famines -- Potatoes and the Coming of Blight -- Peel and the Politics of Repeal -- The Provision of Relief -- 4 Putrefying Vegetation and 'Queen's Pay' -- Party Politics and the Triumph of Ideology -- The 'Male' Roads and 'Queen's Pay' -- Food Supplies and Food Exports -- Food Shortages and Famine Elsewhere -- 5 'Black '47' -- The Crisis of Starvation -- Soup or Starvation? -- Private Philanthropy -- 6 'The Expatriation of a People' -- Property Supporting Poverty -- The Impact of Famine -- The Press and British Public Opinion -- 7 'A Policy of Extermination' -- The Prodigal Son -- 'An Army of Beggars'. The Rate-in-Aid Issue -- The Flight from Ireland: Emigration -- The Cost of the Famine -- Epilogue 'The Famine Killed Everything' -- Note on Further Reading -- Notes -- Index