The Great Famine

Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx of the rural poor seeking refuge and relief. 

The Famine in Bantry Union.

The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora.

In The Darkness Echoing she tours Ireland to find our most haunted and fascinating historical sites, to discover the stories behind them and reveal what they say about Ireland as a nation. 

This book explains what happened before and during the Famine, with an account of the consequences of this epic tragedy.

This folio encompasses a cross-section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that tragic period.

New paperback edition of The Curse of Reason. This is a first-hand witness account of the The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852.

A comprehensive and complete look at the Great Irish Famine 1845-1852. Large format, heavy hardcover.

The most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Irish famine

Published by the Historical Association of Ireland originally in 1986 and this second impression 1994.

Although the famine of the 1840's is one of the central events in modern Irish history, relatively little has been written directly on this subject in recent years.