Were nationalist writers correct to assert that the Great Famine was mainly the result of the reprehensible policies of the British Government?

 Essential Reading

• Kinealy, Christine, The Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (Basingstoke, 2002), pp.31-60.

Recommended Readings

• Donnelly, James S. The Great Irish Potato Famine (Stoud, Glos., 2001) [short loan]
• Donnelly, James S. 'Constructing the memory of the Irish famine, 1850-1900', Éire-Ireland XXXI (No. 1&2, 1996), pp. 26-61. [Reprinted in Donnelly, Great Irish Potato Famine, pp. 209-245].
• Edwards, R. Dudley and T. Desmond Williams (eds.), Great Famine: studies in Irish history, 1845-1852 (Dublin, 1994). [short loan]
• Gray, Peter, Famine, land and politics: British government and Irish society, 1843-1850 (Dublin, 1999) [short loan]
• ---. 'National humiliation and the great hunger: fast and famine in 1847', Irish Historical Studies XXXII (2000), pp. 193-216 [short loan].
• ---. 'Famine relief policy in comparative perspective: Ireland, Scotland and Northwestern Europe, 1845-1849', Éire-Ireland 32(No. 1, 1997), pp. 86-108.
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998 (Oxford, 1999), pp. 69-86. [short loan].
• Killen, John (ed.), The famine decade: contemporary accounts, 1841-1851 (Belfast, 1995). [short loan]
• Kinealy, Christine, The Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (Basingstoke, 2002) [short loan].
• ---. This great calamity: the Irish famine 1845-52 (Dublin, 1994)
• ---. A death-dealing famine: the great hunger in Ireland (Chicago, 1997).
• Morash, Chris, and Richard Hayes (eds.), 'Fearful realities': new perspectives on the famine (Dublin, 1996) [short loan]
• Ó Gráda, Cormac, Black '47 and beyond: the great Irish famine (Princeton, 1999) [short loan].
• Póirtéir, Cathal, The Great Irish Famine (Cork, 1995) [short loan].

Lecture Outlines
Post Famine Society and Economy

1. Urban and Rural Lives
2. Cultural Changes
3. Winners and Losers
4. New Directions?

1. Emigration: a global perspective
2. Irish emigration to the famine
3. The famine exodus
4. 'Draining the lifeblood of the country'