Jim Kemmy ( Editor) - OLD LIMERICK JOURNAL - FAMINE EDITION ( Number 32 - Winter 1995 )

Product Description

Probably one of the most sought after back issues of the Old Limerick Journal ( and also one of the largest ) - this 1995 edition covered all aspects of the famine in Limerick city and  the wider locality

176 pages, illustrated throughout, with content from a host of contributors

General Editor Jim Kemmy

Vol. 32, Winter 1995

Contents

From Ghost Voices: a famine sequence [poem] by Flann O'Connor
Blight, starvation and flight [editorial]
Acknowledgements
How the potato came to Ireland by Richard Ahern
Pre-Famine Limerick: A Study in Contrasts by Paula Coonerty
The Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852 by Thomas P. O'Neill
The famine in Limerick by Kevin Hannan
The onset of famine: County Clare, 1845-1846 by Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Garret Hugh Fitzgerald
Baron Monteagle of Brandon and the famine, 1845-1848 by Charlotte Murphy
Limerick Union Workhouse during the Great Famine by Ciarán Ó Murchadha
The Workhouse by Kevin Hannan
Limerick: Building and the Famine by Judith Hill
Richard Osborne at Limerick, introduced by K. A. Murray
William Monsell, First Baron Emly of Tervoe by Matthew Potter
Bread or Blood by Tom Donovan
Limerick Quakers and Famine Relief by Rob Goodbody
The Great Famine in Murroe by Mark Tierney
'Potatoes and providence': British Government responses to the Great Famine by Peter Gray
Godfrey Massy's Memoirs of the Famine Years in Bruff
Pine coffin reports: government correspondence, 1846 compiled by William Murray
Meeting of labourers at Tory Hill (from our special reporter), Limerick Chronicle
Incident at Hospital: further government correspondence
A letter from Sir Matthew Barrington, 1846
The Construction of the Floating Docks by Mark Tierney
'The distress of the lower class': some further government correspondence, 1847
Famine letters by Alexander Somerville, introduction by K. D. M. Snell
Stephen de Vere's voyage to Canada, 1847 by P. J. Meghen
Emigration and famine: the evidence of Francis Spaight, July, 1847 by Patrick J. O'Connor
The Coffin Ships by Kevin Hannan
Michael Hogan and the Paupers' Graveyard by Jim Kemmy
The Newcastle West workhouse by Sean Kelly
Vincent de Paul Society, Limerick, and the Famine by Larry Walsh
Limerick as I saw it, 1848 by William S. Balch
Life and death in Limerick, 1849 by Spencer T. Hall
Gleanings of Limerick, 1850 by S. Godolphin Osborne
Emigration from the workhouses of the mid-west, 1848-1859: an overview by Chris O'Mahony
The Law and the Famine by Kevin Hannan
Book review - The Great Famine, Studies in Irish History, 1845-52 
ed. by R. Dudley Edwards and T. Desmond William by G. Kitson Clark
From A chant for Irishmen, befitting the times [poem] by Thomas Dillon