The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations - Paperback

by Eamon Maher (Other), Marguerite Corporaal (Editor), Peter Gray (Editor)

This volume represents a significant new stage in Irish Famine scholarship, adopting a broad interdisciplinary approach that includes ground-breaking demographical, economic, cultural and literary research on poverty, poor relief and class relations during one of Europe's most devastating food crises.

Author Biography

Marguérite Corporaal is Associate Professor of British Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is the author of Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847-1870 (2017) and co-editor of Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (2017), Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2014), Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology (2012) and Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (2017).

Peter Gray is Professor of Modern Irish History and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of The Irish Famine (1995), Famine, Land and Politics (1999) and The Making of the Irish Poor Law, 1815-43 (2009). He is co-editor of The Irish Lord Lieutenancy, c.1541-1922 (2012), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, 1838-1948 (2011), Victoria's Ireland? Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 (2004) and The Memory of Catastrophe (2004).