Famine
Subtitle: the Irish experience, 900-1900 : subsistence crises and famines in Ireland
By: edited by E. Margaret Crawford.
Contributors: Crawford, E. Margaret.; Queen's University of Belfast.; Economic and Social History Society of Ireland.
Publisher: J. Donald
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Famines -- Ireland -- History -- Congresses.; Food supply -- Ireland -- History -- Congresses.; Ireland -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"'Famines and subsistence crises in Ireland' was the theme of a symposium held on 1 April 1987 at The Queen's University of Belfast under the auspices of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland"--P. v.
Table of contents: title: William Wilde's Table of Irish famines, 900-1850 / edited by E. Margaret Crawford; title: Weather, famine, pestilence, and plague in Ireland, 900-1500 / Mary C. Lyons; title: Meal and money / Raymond Gillespie; title: The gap in famines / David Dickson; title: The Great Famine was no ordinary subsistence crisis / Peter M. Solar; title: The response of the medical profession to the Great Famine / Peter Froggatt; title: The Poor Law during the Great Famine / Christine Kinealy; title: The food crisis of the 1890s / T.P. O'Neill; title: Subsistence crises and famines in Ireland / E. Margaret Crawford; title: Conclusion / L.A. Clarkson.