The History of the Irish Famine: The Exodus: Emigration and the Great Irish Famine

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Gerard Moran (European School Brussels, Belgium) Gerard Moran (European School Brussels, Belgium)

The History of the Irish Famine

The Exodus: Emigration and the Great Irish Famine

Gerard Moran (European School Brussels, Belgium), Gerard Moran (European School Brussels, Belgium)

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Routledge
10 October 2018

Series: Routledge Historical Resources

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852.

This volume examines how the failure of the potato crop in the late 1840s led to the mass exodus of 2.1 million people between 1845 and 1855. They left for destinations as close as Britain and as far as the United States, Canada and Australia, and heralded an era of mass migration which saw another 4.5 million leave for foreign destinations over the next half-century. How they left, how they settled in the host countries and their experiences with the local populations are as wide and varied as the numbers who left and, using extensive primary sources, this volume analyses and assesses this in the context of the emigrants themselves and in the new countries they moved.

Edited by: Gerard Moran (European School Brussels Belgium), Gerard Moran (European School Brussels, Belgium)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138200975
ISBN 10: 1138200972
Series: Routledge Historical Resources
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 10 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Professor Christine Kinealy, is the Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA. Professor Kinealy has published extensively on nineteenth-century Irish history. Dr Gerard Moran, European School Brussels. Dr Moran is author of many books and articles on Emigratin from Ireland. Dr Jason King, Moore Institute, Galway University. Dr King has published extensively on Irish emigration to Canada.