Cork University Press has signed contracts for the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine 1845-52 edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth and Mike Murphy (Department of Geography, UCC).
The Great Irish Famine was a landmark event in Irish and world history. Individual memories of the famine, coupled with 'collective memory' of the event in later years, influenced the political culture of both Ireland and Irish-America. The Irish famine killed about one million people and resulted in emigration on a massive scale. The Atlas will be a landmark publication for Cork University Press and the Department of Geography, UCC and it will highly illustrated and printed in large scale format similar to The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry.
The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine will be published in 2012 on National Famine Commemoration Day.
Preface President Mary McAleese
Poem by Eavan Boland
Introduction John Crowley & W. J. Smyth
Section 1 Pre-Famine Ireland (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 1 Pre-Famine Society and Landscape (W J. Smyth)
Case study: 1741 Famine (David Dickson)
Chapter 2 The failure of the potato and the Famine (John Feehan)
Case study: The Failure of the Potato: Baunreagh, Co. Laois (John Feehan)
Section II The Great Hunger (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 3 Ireland and colonial policy (David Nally)
Chapter 4 British Relief measures (Peter Gray)
Box: Sir Charles Trevelyan (Peter Gray)
Chapter 5 Operation of the Poor Law (Christine Kinealy)
Box: Victoria and the Famine (Christine Kinealy)
Case study: ‘The largest amount of good’: Quaker relief efforts (Helen Hatton)
Section III The Workhouse
Chapter: 6 An ethnography of the workhouse (W. J. Smyth)
Case study: Lurgan/Portadown Workhouse during the Famine (Gerard Mac Atasney)
Chapter : 7 Ideology, Architecture and the workhouse (Liz Thomas)
Case study: The Cork Workhouse (Michelle O’Mahony)
Section IV Population Decline and Social Transformation (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 8 Mortality (Cormac Ó Gráda)
Chapter 9 Medical Relief and the Great Famine (Laurence Geary)
Case study: William Wilde’s survey of County Cork (Laurence Geary)
Chapter 10 Emigration 1846-1860 (Kerby Miller)
Case study The Great Famine and Religious Demography in mid-nineteenth century Ulster (Kerby A. Miller, Brian Gurrin and Liam Kennedy)
Chapter 11 Women and the Great Irish Famine (Dympna McLoughlin)
Chapter 12 Landlordism and the Famine (David Butler)
Munster
Introduction
Case study: The Mizen Peninsula (Patrick Hickey)
Case study: Clogheen-Burncourt (Willie Smyth)
Case study: The Dingle Peninsula (Kieran Foley)
Connacht
Introduction
Case study: Connemara (Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill)
Case study: In the shadow of Sliabh an Iarann, Co. Leitrim (Gerard Mac Atasney)
Case study: Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon (Charles Orser)
Leinster
Introduction
Case study: Baltyboys, Co. Wicklow (Matthew Stout)
Case study: Co. Meath during the Famine (Peter Connell)
Case study: Burying the Famine Dead: Kilkenny Workhouse (Jonny Geber)
Case study: Co. Offaly during the Famine (Ciarán Reilly)
Ulster
Introduction
Case study: Belfast’s Hidden Famine (Christine Kinealy and Gerard Mac Tasney)
Case study: Monaghan during the Famine (Paddy Duffy)
Case study: Enniskillen (Desmond McCabe)
Case study: The Management of Famine in Donegal in the Hungry Forties (Jim MacLaughlin)
Section V Witnessing the Famine (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 13 The Famine in Gaelic manuscripts (Neil Buttimer)
Case study: James Mahony (c.1816-c.1859)
Chapter 14 Asenath Nicholson’s Famine narrative (Lorraine Chadwick)
Chapter 15 Carlyle’s journey through Famine Ireland (John Crowley)
Case study: French response to the Great Famine (Grace Neville)
Section VI The Scattering (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 16 Black 47' in Liverpool (Patrick Nugent and Carmen Tunney)
Case study: Glasgow, the Famine and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic (Dr John Reid)
Case study: London’s Famine burial site (Natasha Powers)
Chapter 17 Toronto and the Irish Famine Migration (Mark McGowan)
Box: Gross Ile (Mark McGowan)
Chapter 18 The Famine and New York (Analise Shrout)
Box: New York’s Famine memorial (Joe Lee)
Chapter 19 The Famine and Australia (Thomas Keneally)
Case Study: ‘Week after week, the eviction and the Exodus: Ireland and Moreton Bay, 1848-51 (Jennifer Harrison)
Section VII Legacy (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter 20 Post-Famine Ireland (Willie Nolan)
Chapter 21 The Irish language (Máiréad Nic Craith)
Case Study: Co. Cork (Máiréad Nic Craith)
Chapter 22 The Irish Diaspora (Piaras MacÉinrí)
Section VIII Remembering the Famine (Double page spread)
Introduction
Chapter: 23 Folklore and memory (Cathal Póirtéir)
Case study: Tadhg Ó Murchú (1842-1928) (Cathal Póirtéir)
Chapter: 24 Famine and politics (J Crowley)
Chapter: 25 New Sites of memory (J Crowley)
Box: Commemoratives sites in County Cork
Box: Memory and Music (M. Ingoldsby)
Chapter 26 'Strokestown Park House and the National Famine Museum as a site of memory'(Terence Dooley)
Chapter 27 Art and the Famine:(Catherine Marshall)
Chapter 28 Literature and the Famine (Chris Morash)
Section IX Hunger and Famine Today (provisional title)
Introduction
Chapter 29 Famine, food security or food sovereignty? (Colin Sage)
Case study: Imaging Famine: Whose Hunger? (Luke Dodd)
Chapter 30 Fighting Hunger: Ireland’s role (Connell Foley, Policy Director, Concern)
(List of authors not finalized)
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