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Potato Famine Summary
3,371 words, approx. 11 pages
Ireland 1845-1851 The Irish potato famine killed one million people and led 2.5 million people to emigrate, making it one of the worst famines in modern European history. The Irish potato famine dealt a devastating blow to landless labor in Ireland...
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The Great Hunger Information
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The Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad life) reduced the population of Ireland by 20 to 25 percent between 1845 and 1852.[1] It is a highly contentious topic of history and known by various names, ranging from The Great...


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News and Journals
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The Economist (US)
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger.
06/24/1995: 660 words, approx. 2 pages
HEATHCLIFF AND THE GREAT HUNGER. By Terry Eagleton. Verso; 355 pages; Pounds 18.95 and $27.95 IN THE 150th year since the terrible Irish famine began, every exile who owns a word-processor feels compelled to say his bit about it. In that spirit...
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The Washington Post
`Great Hunger': Family Affair
07/15/1994: 308 words, approx. 1 pages
"Great Hunger" Through July 31 Consenting Adults Theatre Company Tickets: 202/526-1011 In Diane Ney's "Great Hunger," which the Consenting Adults Theatre Company opened at MetroStage last week, Irishman Brian Convery pays a visit to his cousin's family on Capitol Hill,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Hugh L. Hennedy
8,767 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Hennedy examines the relationship in Anthony Trollope's Castle Richmond (1860) between the love story and the Famine backdrop. The critic argues, contrary to earlier scholarship, that Trollope established a thematic and situational parallelism in the novel between family and country, but concedes that both examples of such parallelism suffer to a degree from disproportion.
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Chris Morash
8,619 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Morash analyzes three Famine novels in relation to the Malthusian principles of population—that an "unchecked" population will increase at a much higher rate than will the subsistence level, unless the population is "checked" by some type of disaster, such as famine, war, or disease. Morash argues that the Malthusian principles are present in the novels, suggesting that the Famine—the "check"—is the fault of the "...
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Chris Morash
8,601 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following survey of Famine poetry, Morash claims that the Famine "left the poets of the 1840s abandoned by tradition," citing the difficulties the poets experienced trying to respond to the enormous tragedy and the fact that the subject matter resisted the Victorian poetic tendency to marry form with meaning.
 
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How the Irish Potato Famine Affected American Culture
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About the Irish Potato Famine's affects on America.


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