The hidden famine : poverty, hunger, and sectarianism in Belfast, 1840-50 /

The hidden famine : poverty, hunger, and sectarianism in Belfast, 1840-50 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Kinealy, Christine.
Imprint:London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
Description:xi, 242 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
Famines -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Poverty -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Poor -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Famines.
Poor.
Poverty.
Social conditions
Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- History.
Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Social conditions.
Belfast (Northern (Ireland) -- Church history.
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland.
Northern Ireland -- Belfast.
Church history.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4473012
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:MacAtasney, Gerard.
ISBN:074531371X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p.233-234) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The 'Old' Poor Law, c. 1640-1845
  • 1. An 'Un-National Town'
  • The Industrial Capital of Ireland
  • The Athens of the North?
  • Housing and Diet
  • Strategies for Survival
  • A Poor Law for Ireland
  • The Hungry Forties?
  • Part II. A National Crisis, c. 1845-47
  • 2. A 'Man-Made Famine'
  • An Unusual Blight
  • Local Responses
  • 'Absolute Danger of Starvation'
  • 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett
  • A Divided Society
  • 3. 'All the Horrors of Famine'
  • Belfast in Crisis
  • Protest and Riot
  • 'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger'
  • Desolation and Distress Unparalleled
  • 'The Glorious Principle of Self-Reliance'
  • Poverty on the Streets
  • 4. An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47
  • Institutional Responses to Disease
  • Fever Follows Famine
  • Great and Peculiar Urgency
  • Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials
  • 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors'
  • 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money'
  • The Amended Poor Law
  • Judgment upon Our Land
  • Part III. A Divided Town
  • 5. Public and Private Responses
  • Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law
  • Private Philanthropy
  • Women and Philanthropy
  • 'Thorough Evangelization'
  • Charity and Conversion
  • The Bible and Protestant Dominion
  • 6. Conflict and Rebellion
  • Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse
  • Emigration and Removal
  • 'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day'
  • The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising
  • The Rate-in-Aid Dispute
  • 7. 'The Crisis is Passed'
  • The Path to Recovery
  • The Cholera Epidemic
  • Orange against Green
  • A Royal Visit
  • 8. Aftermath. 'A Hell below a Hell'
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index

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