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9.2.3 - Famine books


*The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History: 1845-53* ed D. Edwards & D.
Williams, 1956.
*The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849* Cecil Woodham-Smith. 1962.
Reprinted as Penguin ppbk 1991. Currently available in major book stores.
*History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847* J. O'Rourke. 1874. Reprinted
by Veritas 1989. 1st major book about Irish famine.
*The Famine in Ireland* Mary Daly. 1986. 138pp.
*The Great Irish Famine* Cormac O Grada. Repr. 1992. 87pp.
*The Visitation of God?: The Potato and the Great Irish Famine* Austin
Bourke. ed Jacqueline Hill, Cromac O Grada. 1993. 230 pp.
*Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-47* Thomas Gallagher. 1982. 345 pp.
American author. Currentyly available in ppk in major bookstores.
*Famine: The Irish Experience 900-1900 - Subsistence Crisis and Famines
in Ireland* ed E. Margaret Crawford. 1994.
"The History and Social Influence of the Potato* Redcliffe Salaman. 1949.
Repr 1987.