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Date Posted: 14:56:47 09/07/02 Sat
Author: 2 great books
Subject: Dr. C. Kinealy

Introduction

Dr. Christine Kinealy first made contact with the N-W Great Hunger Memorials Committee as a result of our educational efforts. On December 3, 1998 she spoke on Derry dockside at the “coffin-ship berth” . The occasion was a commemoration which recalled the needless and tragic victims of the “Londonderry” [Story below]. Towards the end of August 2000, she and Ivan Cooper, a civil rights veteran, and former Minister for Community Relations in the ill-fated 1974 power-sharing executive, opened our “Curriculum Office”. The Masters of Ceremonies were Mr. Danny Ayling, secretary to the Derry Division #1, of the AOH, who has been our chairman since 1995, and a local author and historian, Mr. Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh, also a 1995 co-founder. The event was well attended and a finger buffer was organized to mark the occasion. Christine, during both visits delivered a lecture on An Ghorta Mhor. In August 2000 she drew from her upcoming book -“The Hidden Famine”. Her talk was delivered to a packed house at the Hibernian Hall, in the centre of Derry.

THE HIDDEN FAMINE Released – September 2000 – Pluto Press, London Pb £13.99 07453 1371 X
& Hb. £ 40.00 07453 1376 O


Between 1845 and 1852 Ireland was devastated by the ‘Great Hunger’ – the most severe famine in modern European history. The view widely held by historians is that the impact of the Famine on the northern province of Ulster, in particular the largely Protestant city of Belfast, was minimal. In the first book on the Famine to focus specifically on Belfast, Christine Kinealy, one of Ireland’s leading historians of the period, and Gerard MacAtasney, challenge the view and offer a new interpretation.

Drawing on a wealth of original research, Kinealy and Mac Atasney begin with an examination of society and social behaviour in Belfast prior to 1845. They then assess the official response to the crisis by the British government, the response by the Church in both England and Ireland, and the part played by the local administration in Ulster. The authors examine the impact of the cholera epidemic on Belfast in 1849-50, the city’s recovery after the Famine, and the beginnings of open sectarianism among the business and landed classes of the province.

Christine Kinealy is a reader at the University of Central Lancashire and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool. She is the author of, among other books, “A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (Pluto Press 1997). Gerard Mac Atasney teaches in Belfast. He has published two previous books, The Famine in Lurgan / Portadown, and Leitrim and the Great Hunger.

A DEATH-DEALING FAMINE - Christine Kinealy

(Pluto Press) Pb-£12.99 0 7453 1074 5
& Hb-£40.00 0 7453 1075 3

“Kinealy is one of the outstanding historians
of modern Ireland. Anyone who wants to understand
the making of modern Ireland should read Kinealy’s book”.

Irish Democrat

“The style is clear, accessible and engaged”

Irish Studies Review

“Pluto Press is to be congratulated…A brilliantly executed synopsis of current thinking on the Famine”.

Teaching History (Historical Association).

“A tremendous book, dealing with the minutiae of poverty and pestilence-stricken life in Ireland and the haughty world of High politics in Westminster. The devastating effect one had on the other is vividly portrayed in the book, which is an invaluable addition to that small collection of books which help us to look at ourselves through our own eyes, giving us the right to feel hurt and angry, a right taken away from us, and which still, sadly, has to be fought for.”

Andersontown News

In brief, Dr. Kinealy examinees the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52, including political ideologies, providentialist ideas, and the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.

Moderators' footnote:

Dr. Kinealy is one of our earliest patrons. The impressive list reflects a cross-community interest in this tragic era in Irish history, but also a contemporary solidarity with our educational endeavours. New patrons cordially invited. [See Patrons List - one of our initial postings]

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