The Death Census of Black '47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland's Great Famine by Liam Kennedy

The Death Census of Black '47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland's Great Famine by Liam Kennedy

The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.

‘This volume provides both a new source for determining the level of tragic local deaths as a result of the Great Famine and a brilliantly new way of evaluating the ameliorative efforts of the United Kingdom governmentFamine studies will be significantly changed in light of this radical study’ —Professor Donald H. Akenson.

‘Based on 100 eyewitness statements, amounting to almost 50,000 words of testimony, the death census of 1847 demonstrates that there are still sources to be recovered that add depth and nuance to our understanding of the tragedy known as the Great Famine. Stunning research by four accomplished scholars’ —Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA.

‘This book is a wonderful resource for all those who want to learn more about the most important event in Irish history. The Catholic clergy who prepared the reports were uniquely well placed to document the devastation across the country in Black ’47. The Death Census enables readers to drill down into the local experience of Ireland’s Great Famine using this unique source to understand how the catastrophe affected ordinary people in communities across the country in the late 1840s.’ —Professor Enda Delaney, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Professor Liam Kennedy is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish economy and society.

Professor Donald M. MacRaild is a leading specialist on the history of the Irish diaspora. He has also published on British diasporas, modern social and labour history, and edits a series on Theory and History for Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr Lewis Darwen specialises in British social and political history. He has longstanding research interests in nineteenth-century social policy, and has published widely in this field.  

Dr Brian Gurrin, a demographic historian, is author (with Kerby Miller and Liam Kennedy) of Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2022). He is currently a researcher on the ‘Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury’ project.

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ISBN 13	9781839984310
ISBN 10	1839984317
Title	The Death Census of Black '47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland's Great Famine
Author	Liam Kennedy
Series	Anthem Irish Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Anthem Press
Year published	2023-01-10
Number of pages	330
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