The hidden famine : poverty, hunger, and sectarianism in Belfast, 1840-50 / Christine Kinealy and Gerard MacAtasney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinealy, Christine.

Contributor:

MacAtasney, Gerard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--Northern Ireland--Belfast--History--19th century.

Famines.

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

Poor.

Poverty--Northern Ireland--Belfast--History--19th century.

Poverty.

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Church history.

Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--History.

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Social conditions.

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

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the impact of Ireland's Great Famine on the city of Belfast.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes 1-5

16-39

40-41

Part I: The 'Old' Poor Law, c. 1640-1845

1 An 'Un-National Town'

The Industrial Capital of Ireland

The Athens of the North?

Housing and Diet

Strategies for Survival

A Poor Law for Ireland

The Hungry Forties?

Notes 1-35

36-71

72-119

Part II: A National Crisis, c. 1845-47

2 A 'Man-Made Famine'

An Unusual Blight

Local Responses

'Absolute Danger of Starvation'

'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett

A Divided Society

Notes 1-45

46-85

3 'All the Horrors of Famine'

Belfast in Crisis

Protest and Riot

'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger'

Desolation and Distress Unparalleled

'The Glorious Principle of Self- Reliance'

Poverty on the Streets

Notes 1-3

4-46

47-94

95-100

4 An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47

Institutional Responses to Disease

Fever Follows Famine

Great and Peculiar

Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials

'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors'

'An Increasing Scarcity of Money'

The Amended Poor Law

Judgment upon Our Land

36-83

84-126

127-148

Part III: A Divided Town

5 Public and Private Responses

Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law

Private Philanthropy

Women and Philanthropy

'Thorough Evangelization'

Charity and Conversion

The Bible and Protestant Dominion

Notes 1-12

13-56

57-102

103-123

6 Conflict and Rebellion

Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse

Emigration and Removal

'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day'

The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising

The Rate-in-Aid Dispute

7 'The Crisis is Passed'

The Path to Recovery

The Cholera Epidemic

Orange against Green

A Royal Visit.

Notes 1-30

31-79

80-127

128-144

8 Aftermath. 'A Hell below a Hell'

Notes 1-27

28-54

Appendices

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Abercorn, Marquis of, 179

Aberdeen Ladies' Association, 126

Achill 125

Act of Union

4

7

147

150

156

159

Adelaide [Australia] 55

Albert, Prince

176

178

179

181

Alfred Street 20

Amended Poor Law

99

109

110

America

2

136

144

Anderson, Dr

89-91

101

Annette Street 20

Antrim

County of, 23

County of, 39

County of, 41

County of, 49

County of, 56

County of, 62

County of, 81

Grand Jury of, 26

Turnpike, 19

Ardoyne 34

Armagh, County of

15

54

126

Arran Islands 128

Australia

167

168

Bakeries

Bernard Hughes, 62

Bernard Hughes, 73

Church Street, 63

Elliotts, 63

Balderg [Co. Mayo] 127

Ball, R 104

Ballycastle [Co.Mayo] 130

Ballydolaghan 66

Ballyduggan House 66

Ballygomartin 29

Ballyhackamore

29

33

73

118

122

188

Ballymacarrett

5

9-10

16-18

21

emigration society, 50-1

emigration society, 144

relief committee, 48-50

relief committee, 52-3

relief committee, 62

relief committee, 66-7

relief committee, 70

temporary cholera ward, 170

Ballymena

62

railway, 164

Ballymote [Co.Mayo] 128

Ballymurphy 29

Ballynafeigh

98

Ballysillan 29

Bangor 190

Banner of Ulster

6

41

47-8

51

58-9

61

Bantry [Co.Cork]

9

67

Barrack Street

88

91

111

142

174

Bateson

Lady, 20

Robert, 20

Belfast

Board of Guardians, 5

Board of Guardians, 50

Board of Guardians, 70

Board of Guardians, 81

Board of Guardians, 83-91

Board of Guardians, 94-7.

Board of Health, 90-1

Board of Health, 93-4

Board of Health, 96

Board of Health, 98-9

Board of Health, 101-2

Charitable Society, 24

Charitable Society, 28-9

Charitable Society, 34

Charitable Society, 88

Charitable Society, 91-2

Charitable Society, 95-8

Chess Club, 73

College Hospital, 111

College Hospital, 141-2

College Hospital, 185

Court House, 97

Deaf and Dumb Institute, 181

Destitute Sick Society, 118

General Dispensary, 71

General Hospital, 85-91

General Hospital, 95-6

General Hospital, 101

General Hospital, 112

General Hospital, 169

General Relief Fund, 67

General Relief Fund, 87

General Relief Fund, 98

General Relief Fund, 117-20

Harbour Commissioners, 177

House of Correction, 61

House of Correction, 73

House of Correction, 79

House of Correction, 97

House of Correction, 101

House of Industry, 22-4

House of Industry, 27

House of Industry, 30-1

Insane Asylum, 24

Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 120

Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 71

Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 73

Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 120

Ladies' Clothing Society, 73

Ladies' Industrial Association for Connaught, 124

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 114

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 181

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 71

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 73-4

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 89

Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 101

Lough, 164

Lough, 179

Loyal National Repeal Association, 148

Music Hall, 73

Music Hall, 149.

Natural Historical and Philosophical Society, 165

Newsletter , 3

Newsletter , 6

Newsletter , 16

Newsletter , 26-7

Newsletter , 32-3

Newsletter , 40

Newsletter , 48

Orange Lodges, 1

Orange Lodges, 153

Orange Lodges, 157

Orange Lodges, 171

Poor House, 22

Poor House, 24

Poor House, 28-9

Poor House, 170

Port, 143

Protestant Journal 6

Protestant Journal 54-6

Protestant Journal 104

Protestant Journal 172

Relief Committee, 50-1

Relief Committee, 62

Relief Committee, 66

Relief Committee, 70

Relief Committee, 72

Relief Committee, 75

Relief Committee, 84

Religious Tract Society, 136

Repeal Association, 172

Society for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Working Classes, 45

Surgical Hospital, 30

Teetotal Association, 178

Town Council, 39

Town Council, 48

Town Council, 58

Town Council, 95

Town Council, 113

Town Mission, 59

Town Mission, 136

Vindicator , 3

Vindicator , 8

Vindicator , 40-1

Vindicator , 46

Vindicator , 48

Vindicator , 59

Wire works, 46

Workhouse fever hospital, 83-91

Workhouse fever hospital, 97

Workhouse fever hospital, 118

Workhouse fever hospital, 140

Workhouse graveyard, 95-7

Workhouse graveyard, 99

Workhouse graveyard, 112-13

Workhouse graveyard, 140

Workhouse, 5-6

Workhouse, 34

Workhouse, 81-90

Workhouse, 94-5

Bell's Lane 20

Birmingham 175

Black, Christopher 71

Blackiston, Richard 22

Blackstaff New Road

96

nuisance, 58

Blair, Tony 2

Botanic Gardens

Road, 20

Boyd, John

87

Brady's Row 186

Brannigan, Michael 130-1

Brennan, Bernard 88.

Bright, John 175

Bristol 82

British Association for the Advancement of Science 165

British Association for the Relief of Distress in the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland 113

British North America

16

23

British Relief Association 131

British Treasury 10

Brookehill 55-6

Brown Street 172

Brown, Samuel 71

Browne, Dr 170

Bucklebeggar 19

Bunker's Hill House 42

Burns, James

42-3

45

Calcutta 55

Campbell, Patrick 2

Canada

143

145

Carnmoney

17

20

22-3

Carr, Biddy 30

Carrick Hill 72

Carrickfergus

13

172

Castlereagh

Castlewellan 175

Casual poor

111-12

141

Catholic Church

7-8

125

136-7

173

Catholic emancipation

53

134

Catholics

1

7-10

55-6

103-4

Cavan, County of

15 8

Chichester Street 92

Chichester, Lord John 161

Cholera

140-1

165

169-71

Christ Church

78

114

117

Protestant Association, 137

Chronicle, The 56

Church Lane 46

Church Missionary Society 136

Church of Ireland

112

189

Church Street 63

Clare, County of 119

Clarendon, Lord

155

175

183

Clarke, Edward

52-3

Clarke, John 72

Cleary, John 174

Clifton Street burial ground 95-6

Coffey, Dr 84

College Medical District

71

92

College Square North 44

Collins, Brenda 3-4

Conn's Water Bridge 47

Connacht [Connaught]

119

124

133

Cooke, Rev.Dr Henry

27-8

32-4

148

Copeland Islands

Lighthouse, 179

Cork

City of, 15

City of, 81-2

City of, 143

City of, 178

County of, 1

County of, 6

County of, 21

County of, 67

County of, 67.

County of, 72.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783715855

1783715855

9781849640206

1849640203

9780585425771

0585425779

OCLC:

50811084