Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the Famine.
Author: MORASH, Chris & HAYES, Richard (Editors).
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000 (reprint). 180 pages. Paperback.
Contents:-
Preface
Chris Morash & Richard Hayes
‘Fearful Realities’ An Introduction
I. ‘REALITIES’: RESPONSES AND IMPLICATIONS
Matthew Stout
The Geography and Implications of Post-Famine Population Decline in Baltyboys, County Wicklow
Donald Jordan
The Famine and its Aftermath in County Mayo
Laurence M. Geary
‘The Late Disastrous Epidemic’: Medical Relief and the Great Famine
James S Donnelly, Jr
‘Irish Property Must Pay for Irish Poverty’: British Public Opinion and the Great Irish Famine
Charles E. Orser
Can there be an Archaeology of the Great Famine’
II. REPRESENTATIONS
Ned Buttimer
A Stone on the Cairn: The Great Famine in Later Gaelic Manuscripts
Chris Morash
Literature, Memory, Atrocity
Margaret Kelleher
The Female Gaze Asenath Nicholson’s Famine Narrative
Robert Mahony
Historicising the Famine: John Mitchel and the Prophetic Voice of Swift
Thomas A. Boylan & Timothy P. Foley
‘A Nation Perishing of Political Economy’?
Sean Ryder
Reading Lessons Famine and the Nation, 1845-1849
Robert Dunlop
The Famine Crisis: Theological Interpretations and Implications
Notes on Contributors
Index
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