Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one m

Explores the response of British government and public opinion to the Irish Famine in the light of contemporary debates about the nature and future of Irish soc

A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

Professor Kerr's scholarly and incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between Church and State and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of br

This is the most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine, and will prove of lasting interest to the general reader. Leading histo