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Ciaran McCabe is a historian of poverty and welfare in nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain, and author of Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland (2018). He teaches in the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University. Ciaran Reilly is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth century Irish history at the Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University. He is author of The Irish Land Agent: The Case of King's County, 1830-1860 and Strokestown and the Great Famine. Emily Mark-FitzGerald is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin, where she specialises in the visual culture of the Irish famine, poverty and migration. Her previous books include Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument (2013) and the co-edited The GreatIrish Famine: Visual and Material Culture (2018).
'Much remains to be researched on Dublin’s Famine-era history, but this finely produced and illustrated volume has done much to raise the veil.’ - Review by Peter Gray, UCD Today (Spring/Summer 2023); 'It is a welcome intervention, offering compelling evidence of how daily life in the colonial garrison town was affected by the social and economic catastrophe.' - Sara Keating, Sunday Business Post, November 2022.; 'Without question the Famine in the capital was not as devastating as what was experienced in other parts of the island. However, as impoverished people crowded into the city seeking work or relief, Dublin's streets appeared like a gigantic refugee camp.' - Irish Independent, November 2022.
