Title: Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland : medicine, science and improvement, 1845-1922 /
Authors: Miller, Ian.
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year: 2014
Subjects: History, 20th Century; History, 19th Century; Diet history; Food Supply history; Food supply Ireland History; Food supply Ireland History; Diet history Northern Ireland.; History, 19th Century Northern Ireland.; History, 20th Century Northern Ireland.; Diet Ireland History; Diet Ireland History; Food habits Ireland History; Food habits Ireland History; Northern Ireland; Ireland; Ireland; Northern Ireland
Abstract: Maps the pivotal role of food in shaping Irish society against the background of famine, the Land Wars, political turbulence, WWI, and the struggle for independence.
Contents: Science, improvement and food, c. 1845-80. The chemistry of famine : nutritional discourse and dietary transformation ; Reforming food production : agricultural science and education -- Food and national decline in post-Famine Ireland, c. 1845-1910. Food and improvement in the mid-nineteenth-century institution ; The decaying post-Famine body : tea, bread and nutritional decline ; Purity, adulteration and national economic decline ; Reforming Irish domestic and agricultural education -- Food, imperialism and resistance, c. 1900-22. Voluntarism, the state and the feeding of the young ; Anticipating a second Famine : consumption, production and resistance during the First World War.