Ireland's Great Famine and popular politics / edited by Enda Delaney and Breandán Mac Suibhne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delaney, Enda, 1971-

Mac Suibhne, Breandán.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

Political culture.

Government, Resistance to.

Poor.

Famines--Social aspects.

Famines.

Famines--Political aspects.

Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.

Ireland.

Ireland--Politics and government--1837-1901.

Politics and government.

Famines--Political aspects--Ireland--History--19th century.

Famines--Social aspects--Ireland--History--19th century.

Poor--Ireland--History--19th century.

Government, Resistance to--Ireland--History--19th century.

Political culture--Ireland--History--19th century.

Social change--Ireland--History--19th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

"Ireland's Great Famine of 1845-52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert 'the animal's right to existence, ' passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' Introduction: "To Assert Even the Animal's Right of Existence" / Enda Delaney and Breandán Mac Suibhne -- "'Tis Hard to Argue Starvation into Quiet" : Protest and Resistance, 1846-47 / John Cunningham -- "The Tottering, Fluttering, Palpitating Mass" : Power and Hunger in Nineteenth Century Literary Responses to the Great Famine / Melissa Fegan -- Soup and Providence : Varieties of Protestantism and the Great Famine / David W. Miller -- Walking Backward to Heaven? : Edmond Ronayne's Pilgrimage in Famine Ireland and Gilded Age America / Kerby A. Miller and Ellen Skerrett, with Bridget Kelly -- The Great Famine, Land and the Making of the Graziers / David S. Jones -- Aspects of Agency : John Ross Mahon, Accommodation and Resistance on the Strokestown Estate, 1845-51 / Ciarán Reilly -- "Bastard Ribbonism" : The Molly Maguires, the Uneven Failure of Entitlement and the Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment / Breandán Mac Suibhne.

ISBN:

9780415836302

0415836301

OCLC:

918149677