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Contents - essays by the following -
Eugene Broderick - The Famine in Waterford as reported in the local Newspapers
Jack Burtchaell - The Demographic Impact of the Famine
Jack Burtchaell - An Overview of the Famine in Waterford
Rita Byrne - The Workhouse in Waterford City - 1847-49
Thomas Gregory Fewer - Poverty and Patronage : Responses to the Famine on the Duke of Devonshire's Lismore Estate
William Fraher - The Dungarvan disturbances of 1846 and sequels
John M Hearne - The Official View of the Famine : Waterford , a Regional Dimension
Joan Johnson - The Quaker Relief Effort in Waterford
Tom Nolan - The Lismore Poor Law Union and the Famine
Ted O'Regan - First Responses to Blight
Donnchadh Ó Ceallacháin - Waterford on the eve of the Famine
Des Cowman - Some Local Responses to the Famine 1846-48
Dermot Power - The Politicisation of the people? Strange Episodes in 1848-49.
Hardcover published by Geography Publications, 1995.
CONDITION - THIS IS A FORMER PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE COPY, but has only minor markings, spine is sunned and faded. Former RFID tag inside back cover, some minor tapemarks on endpages. Uncommon in hardcover, the trade paperback was the more widespread edition at the time.
Donald Brady was County Librarian in Waterford at the time of publication.