The hungry stream : essays on emigration and famine / edited by E. Margaret Crawford ; foreword by Sir Peter Froggatt.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Belfast] : Centre for Emigration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park : Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
Description
x, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Foreword
    Rare books genre
    Notes
    "Proceedings of the conference held at the Ulster-American Folk Park 1995."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Ireland's haemorrhage
    • A midrash on 'Galut', 'exile' and 'diaspora' rhetoric
    • External forces in the famine emigration from Ireland
    • Grosse Ile: 'the most important and evocative Great Famine site outside of Ireland'
    • The land the famine Irish forgot
    • 'The scattered debris of the Irish nation': the famine Irish and New York City, 1845-55
    • The Great Famine and women's emigration from Ireland
    • Emigrants and the Estate Office in the mid-nineteenth century: a compassionate relationship?
    • 'Permanent deadweight': emigration from Ulster workhouses during the famine
    • 'The great hunger?' Irish famine: changing patterns of crisis
    • Black '47; Liverpool and the Irish famine
    • Migrant maladies: unseen lethal baggage
    • The Linen industry and emigration to Britain during the mid-nineteenth century
    • The failure: representation of the Irish famine in letters to Australia
    • 'The condition of our people': William Carleton and the social issues of the mid-1840s
    • Local Relief Committees in Ulster 1845-47
    • Famine in schools:
    • Interpreting famine emigration with children at the Ulster-American Folk Park
    • Famine, emigration, and Boston.
    ISBN
    • 0853896771 ((hardback))
    • 9780853896777 ((hardback))
    • 0853896747 ((pbk.))
    • 9780853896746 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    97226155
    OCLC
    38300292
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