Charity and the great hunger in Ireland : the kindness of strangers

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Charity and the great hunger in Ireland : the kindness of strangers

Christine Kinealy

Bloomsbury, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-398) and index

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

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