Edited sentence: As a result of this impetus with numerous other scholars, he made contributions to the “extraordinary surge” of publications.Professor James Donnelly states that the amount of scholarly attention dedicated to the Great Famine has “expanded enormously,” since the official sesquicentennial commemoration of the famine in the years 1995—7.The “flowering of famine scholarship” he says, has given “academic respectability” to certain “key nationalist perspectives on the famine.This view though its self has changed since 1996