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A Selected Bibliography

In the last 25 years or so, the "historiography" of the Famine (historical writing on that subject) has expanded markedly in quantity and in quality. Most of the older books listed below are available in local public libraries. Many of the more recent ones can be obtained commercially and in paperback form. The latter are marked with an asterisk. The best single volume about the Great Famine is that by James S. Donnelly, Jr.

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Beckett, J.C. The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603 - 1923. New York:Knopf, 1973. more

Bourke, Austin. "The Visitation of God?": The Potato and the Great Irish Famine. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1993. more

Coogan, Tim Pat, The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy. * New York :Palgrave ( St. Martin’s Press), 2001. more

Coogan, Tim Pat, Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora. * New York :Palgrave ( St. Martin’s Press), 2001.more

Donnelly, James S., Jr. The Great Irish Potato Famine. Phoenix Mill,* Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2001. more

Edwards, R. Dudley; Williams,T. Desmond. The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History, 1845-52. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1994.* more

Engels, Fredrish, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844. New York: Hard Press, 2006.* more

Foster, R.F.Modern Ireland: 1600-1972. New York: Penguin, 1990. more

Freeman, T.W. Pre-famineIreland: A Study in Historical Geography. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1957. more

Hayden, Tom, ed. Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997. more

Kinealy, Christine. This Great Calamity:The Irish Famine 1845-52. Dublin:* Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart Publishing,1997. more

Laxton, Edward. The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. more

Lyons, F.S.L. Ireland Since the Famine.Collins Fontana, 1973, 1971.* more

Miller, Kerby.Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.* more

Mitchell, John; (Edited by Maume, Patrick.)The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)* Dublin: Dublin University Press, 2005. more

O’Grada, Cormac. Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.* more

Percival, John. The Great Famine: Ireland's Potato Famine 1845-51. New York: Viewer Books, 1995. more

Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849, London: Penguin Books, 1991, 1962 more