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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (Hardcover)
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (Hardcover)
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The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in
modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be
underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted
that over a million people perished between the years 1845-1852 and
at least one million and a quarter fled the country, the great
majority to North America, some to Australia and a significant
minority ((0.3 million) to British cities. Ireland had been
afflicted by famine before the events of the 1840s; however the
Great Famine is marked by both its absolute scale and its
longevity. It is also better remembered because it was the most
recent and best documented famine. This atlas comprising over fifty
individual chapters and case studies will provide readers with a
broad range of perspectives and relevant insights into this tragic
event. The atlas begins by acknowledging the impossibility of
adequately representing the Great Famine or any major world famine.
Yet by exploring a number of themes from a reconstruction of
pre-Famine Ireland onwards to an exploration of present-day modes
of remembering; by the use of over 150 highly original computer
generated parish maps of population decline, social transformation
and other key themes between the census years 1841 and 1851: and
through the use of poetry, contemporary paintings and accounts,
illustrations and modern photography, what this atlas seeks to a
achieve is a greater understanding of the event and its impact and
legacy. This atlas seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands
and thousands of people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits
or in fields and ditches, with little or nothing to remind us of
their going. The centrality of the Famine workhouse as a place of
destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the atlas seeks to
represent and understand the conditions and experiences of the many
thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years.
Included are case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as
Liverpool, Glasgow, New York and Toronto. A central concern of the
atlas is to seek to understand why a famine of this scale should
occur in a nineteenth-century European country, albeit a country
which was subject to imperial rule. In addition, it seeks to reveal
in detail the working-out and varying consequences of the Famine
across the island. To this end, apart from presenting an overall
island-wide picture, Famine experiences and patterns will be
presented separately for the four provinces. These provincial
explorations will be accompanied by intimate case studies of
conditions in particular localities across the provinces. The atlas
also seeks to situate the Great Irish Famine in the context of a
number of world famines. To achieve these goals and understandings,
the atlas includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who
are experts in their fields - from the arts, folklore, geography,
history, archaeology, Irish and English languages and literatures.
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