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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

Name: Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Author: Christine Kinealy

The Kindness of Strangers

Christine Kinealy,

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The Kindness of Strangers

Christine Kinealy,

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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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Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2013

ISBN

9781441117588

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

Irish 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.

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