Title The hidden famine : poverty, hunger, and sectarianism in Belfast, 1840-50 / Christine Kinealy and Gerard MacAtasney.

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London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : map
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Contents	pt. I. The 'Old' Poor Law, c.1640-1845. 1. An 'Un-National Town'. The Industrial Capital of Ireland. The Athens of the North? Housing and Diet. Strategies for Survival. A Poor Law for Ireland. The Hungry Forties? -- part II. A National Crisis, c.1845-47. 2. A 'Man-Made Famine'. An Unusual Blight. Local Responses. 'Absolute Danger Starvation'. 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett. A Divided Society. 3. 'All the Horrors of Famine'. Belfast in Crisis. Protest and Riot. 'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger'. Desolation and Distress Unparalleled. 'The Glorious Principle of Self-Reliance'. Poverty on the Streets. 4. An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47. Institutional Responses to Disease. Fever Follows Famine. Great and Peculiar Urgency. Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials. 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors'. 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money'. The Amended Poor Law. Judgment upon Our Land -- part III. A Divided Town. 5. Public and Private Responses. Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law. Private Philanthropy. Women and Philanthropy. 'Through Evangelization'. Charity and Conversion. The Bible and Protestant Dominion. 6. Conflict and Rebellion. Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse. Emigration and Removal. 'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day'. The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising. The Rate-in-Aid Dispute. 7. 'The Crisis is Passed'. The Path to Recovery. The Cholera Epidemic. Orange against Green. A Royal Visit. 8. Aftermath. 'A Hell below a Hell'
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Subject	HISTORY.
	HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland.
	Nineteenth century.
	Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Subject	Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- History.
	Armoede.
	Hongersnood.
	Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) (OCoLC)fst01353092
	Famines. (OCoLC)fst00920590
	Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
	Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
	Famines -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
	Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093
	Northern Ireland -- Belfast. (OCoLC)fst01205832
Genre/Form	Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
Subject	Poor -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Local Subject	Poor people -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Subject	Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Church history.
	Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
	Poverty -- Northern Ireland -- Belfast -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author	MacAtasney, Gerard.
Other Form:	Print version: Kinealy, Christine. Hidden famine. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000 074531371X (DLC) 00008778 (OCoLC)43708431
ISBN	9781849640206 (electronic bk.)
	1849640203 (electronic bk.)

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