The Quakers And The Famine In West Cork
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Author | : Dr Ken Baker |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2016-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1326824856 |
In this lecture, we will consider the work of the Quakers in relation to the Potato Famine during the years 1845-1848 with particular reference to County Cork. There are a few preliminary notes to make. First, just who were the Quakers? In answer to this question, we'll investigate their origin and development in Bandon (as an important West Cork market town) during the last years of the seventeenth century and into the next century. Second, we must sketch a picture of what this area of Ireland "looked like" during the years just before the Famine and attempt answers to the question: "Why was the Famine of 1846 so catastrophic?" The historical and geographical context has been described as "An explosion ready to happen." So we ask, briefly: why was this the case? Third: a mention must be made of the social positioning of the Quakers around 1845. The intriguing question must be asked: "How did this [relatively small] group create such an impact?"
Author | : Patrick Hickey |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An original, detailed study of the Famine, its antecedents and its aftermath in West Cork.
Author | : Rob Goodbody |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"When the potato crop failed catastrophically in the autumn of 1846, Quakers came together to set up a sophisticated relief organisation. Through this system donations were solicited in Ireland, Britain and America, and large amounts of food, Clothing and money were distributed where they were most needed. Later this relief organisation became involved in longer term projects such as assistance to agriculture, fisheries and industry and the provision of training ... the experience gained became the foundation for Quaker relief operations which continue today." --Back cover.
Author | : Patrick Hickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jon H. Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Society of Friends |
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Author | : Christine Kinealy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1480 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315513889 |
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. The narratives of those who perished, those who survived and those who emigrated form an integral part of this history and these volumes will make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled – Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes will provide a fresh way of understanding Irish history in general, and famine and migration in particular. Comprehensive editorial apparatus and annotation of the original texts are included along with bibliographies, appendices, chronologies and indexes that point the way for further study.
Author | : David Dickson |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299211806 |
This is a groundbreaking study of Cork's rise from insignificance to international importance as a city and port, and of South Munster's development from agricultural hinterland to one of early modern Ireland's wealthiest regions and a symbol of a new commercial order. Reconstructing the framework of a pre-modern regional society in a way never before attempted for Ireland, Old World Colony integrates social, economic, and political history across the heartlands of "the Hidden Ireland" from the seventeenth century's civil wars to Catholic emancipation in the 1820s. Dickson shows that colonization and commerce transformed the region, but at a price: even in South Munster's formative years, the problems of pre-Famine Ireland-gross income inequality and land scarcity-were already evident. Co-published with Cork University Press, Ireland Wisconsin edition for sale only in the U.S., its territories and possessions, and Canada. "A masterful account. . . . So finely nuanced and meticulously researched that it effectively raises the historiographical bar for Irish regional history."--James G. Patterson, H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews
Author | : Christime Kinealy |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0717155552 |
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
Author | : Seán Ó Nualláin |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2022-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1527586111 |
This book explores the wilful self-destruction of Ireland since the mid-1990s. It proposes that a Celtic confederation should co-exist with the UK in IONA. The high resource, low population density countries of Ireland and Scotland should reach out to their peers in Wales and England with an offer of belonging. An immense and beautiful new possibility is proposed to replace the current illegal congeries.
Author | : Stephen John Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |