IRISH FAMINE:
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dr. Dan Ritschel ritschel@umbc.edu
HIST 726B: “TEACHING HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET”
CENTER FOR HISTORY EDUCATION
Department of History
University of Maryland, Baltimore County


(The list below is just a sampling of the massive recent literature on the famine.)
 

D.G. Boyce, The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996 (1996).

Nicholas Canny, "The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland to America", William and Mary Quarterly

30 (1973), 575-598.

S.J. Connolly, "Revisions Revised? New Work on the Irish Famine", Victorian Studies (Winter 1996), 205-216.

L.P. Curtis, Anglo-Saxons and Celts (1968).

James S. Donnelly, Jr., "The Great Famine: Its Interpreters, Old and New", History Ireland (1993), 27-39.

------------------------- "'Irish Property must Pay for Irish Poverty': British Public Opinion and the Great Irish

Famine", in C. Morash and R. Hayes, eds., Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the

Famine (1996), 60-76.

------------------------- "Mass Evictions and the Great Famine", in Cathal Poirteir, ed., The Great Irish Famine

(1995), 155-173.

S. Gilley and Roger Swift, eds., The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939 (1989).

------------------------- The Irish in the Victorian City (1985).

Peter Gray, Famine, land, and politics (1999).

Alvin Jackson. Ireland 1798-1988 (Oxford, 1999).

Christine Kinealy, This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (1995).

------------------- A death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (1997).

------------------- "Beyond Revisionism: Reassessing the Great Irish Famine", History Ireland 3 (1995).

------------------- "The Famine, 1845-52: How England Failed Ireland", Modern History Review (1995), 18-21.

Noel Kissane, ed., The Irish famine: a documentary history (1995).

Ed Lengel, "A "Perverse and Ill-Fated People": English Perceptions of the Irish, 1845-1851" Essays in History

38 (1996) in http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH38/Lengel.html

F.S.L. Lyons, Ireland since the Famine (1973).

Christopher Morash, Writing the Irish Famine (1995).

Brendan Ó Cathaoir, Famine diary (1999).

Alan O'Day and D. George Boyce, eds, The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist

Controversy (1996).

Cormac Ó Gráda, ed., The Great Irish Famine (1989).

-------------------- Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (1999)

-------------------- Ireland before and after the Famine (1989).

Patrick O'Sullivan, ed., The meaning of the famine (1997).

Cathal Póirtéir, ed., The Great Irish Famine (1995).

Susan Shaw Sailer, ed., Representing Ireland : gender, class, nationality(1997).

Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49 (1962).
 
 

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