Apparitions of death and disease : the great hunger in Ireland / Christine Kinealy.

Great hunger in Ireland

Hamden, CT : Quinnipiac University Press, [2014]

39 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm

This essay provides an overview of the devastating period in Irish history that is simply remembered as the 'Great Hunger'. Christine Kinealy provides a chronology of the Famine, examines the causes and consequences of this tragedy, and asks how could a famine of this magnitude occur at the center of the British Empire? Why did Ireland starve?--back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).

Introduction -- Ireland before 1845 -- The onset of the great hunger -- Blight returns -- Black '47 -- The changing face of famine -- Black '49 -- The famine killed everything -- Chronology of the great hunger.