Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

The Kindness of Strangers

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eBook - PDF

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

The Kindness of Strangers

About this book

The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781441146489
eBook ISBN
9781441117588
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History
CHARITY 
AND 
THE 
GREAT 
HUNGER 
IN 
IRELAND
40
Even 
after 
good 
harvests 
had 
returned 
to 
the 
country, 
the 
Irish 
population 
continued 
to 
fall. 
In 
1841, 
the 
population 
of 
Ireland 
had 
been 
in 
excess 
of 
eight 
million 
people; 
by 
1901 
it 
had 
fallen 
to 
just 
over 
four 
million. 
What 
made 
the 
tragedy 
more 
extraordinary 
was 
the 
fact 
that, 
since 
1800, 
Ireland 
had 
been 
part 
of 
the 
United 
Kingdom, 
which 
was 
at 
the 
centre 
of 
the 
vast, 
powerful 
and 
resource-rich 
British 
Empire. 
Unfortunately, 
the 
resources 
of 
that 
Empire 
had 
not 
been 
deployed 
to 
mitigate 
the 
sufferings 
of 
the 
poor 
in 
Ireland. 
Thankfully 
though, 
as 
the 
following 
chapters 
demonstrate, 
thousands 
of 
people, 
many 
of 
whom 
had 
no 
direct 
connection 
with 
Ireland, 
had 
come 
to 
the 
rescue 
of 
the 
starving 
poor. 
The 
story 
of 
charitable 
interventions 
during 
the 
Famine 
is 
remarkable 
not 
only 
in 
terms 
of 
its 
generosity, 
but 
also 
in 
terms 
of 
its 
impact. 
Without 
this 
intervention, 
the 
death 
toll 
in 
Ireland 
would 
have 
been 
far 
higher 
during 
those 
tragic 
years.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 ‘Apparitions of death and disease’.1 Official responses to the Famine
  6. Chapter 2 ‘Some great and terrible calamity’.1 Relief efforts from near and afar
  7. Chapter 3 ‘A labour of love’.1 Quaker Charity
  8. Chapter 4 ‘An ocean of benevolence’.1 The General Relief Committee of New York
  9. Chapter 5 ‘Arise ye dead of Skibbereen’.1 Leading by example
  10. Chapter 6 ‘This cruel calamity of scarcity’.1 The Role of the Catholic Church
  11. Chapter 7 ‘How good people are!’1 The involvement of women
  12. Chapter 8 ‘A gloomy picture of human misery’.1 The Role of the British Relief Association
  13. Chapter 9 ‘The brotherhood of mankind’.1 Donations to the British Relief Association
  14. Chapter 10 ‘Without distinction of creed or party, nation or colour’.1 American Aid
  15. Chapter 11 ‘The most barbaric nation’.1 Evangelicals and Charity
  16. Conclusion: ‘Thousands have by this means been saved’1
  17. Notes
  18. Appendix
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index