Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)

INTERPRETING THE IRISH FAMINE, 1846-1850: 
Assembled in 1996 by Liz Szabo, then a graduate student at U. of Virginia, this outstanding site contains a large collection of primary sources on the Irish Famine, including English, Irish and U.S. perspectives. 
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html

VIEWS OF THE FAMINE:
Compiled by Steve Taylor. Originally an Emory University site, now at Vassar.
Wealth of primary texts and images. Great links at: http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/Related.html
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/

LAWS IN IRELAND FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF POPERY commonly known as the PENAL LAWS
(The University of Minnesota Law School)
http://www.law.umn.edu/irishlaw/

ACCOUNTS OF THE "POTATO REVOLUTION," 1695 - 1845
(Modern History Sourcebook)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html

DANIEL O'CONNELL ON JUSTICE FOR IRELAND
(House of Commons, 4 February 1836)
http://www.historyplace.com

THE MARY ANNE SADLIER ARCHIVE:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Sadlier.html
Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), an Irish-American immigrant, wrote sixty volumes of work - from domestic novels to historical romances to children's catechisms. First, in New Lights; or Life in Galway (1851), Sadlier was one of the first fiction writers to address the Irish Famine. In addition, Sadlier's novels narrate that other great journey west across the frontier -- the trans-Atlantic voyage west of millions of immigrants.
 
 

SECONDARY SOURCES AVAILABLE ON-LINE:

"A 'Perverse and Ill-Fated People': English Perceptions of the Irish, 1845-521
by Prof. Ed Lengel, University of Virginia
(An essay on the role of racism in shaping English perceptions)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH38/Lengel.html

THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE: CURRICULUM 
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish_famine.html
The curriculum was generated by the Irish Famine Curriculum Committee of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, and approved for inclusion in the New Jersey Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum at the secondary level. The site itself is maintained by the Nebraska Department of Education. Note that it has a tendency to push the nationalist interpretation and to rely on the outdated text by Cecil Woodham-Smith. 

IRISH GENEALOGY
http://www.genealogy.org/~ajmorris/ireland/ireland.htm
 
 

GENERAL IRISH & BRITISH HISTORY SITES:

IRISH HISTORY ON THE WEB
U. of Texas site with a multitude of links on general Irish history.
http://www.vms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html

BRITISH SOURCES AND RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS:
Site for a History Teachers Conference (October 29, 1999) 
Organized by Dr. Newton Key, Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor of History,
Eastern Illinois University 
http://ux1.eiu.edu/~cfnek/workshops/teacher.htm
Includes a great page on British sources and resources: http://www.eiu.edu/~localite/britain/