11716nam 2200757 a 450 991081971350332120240417020752.01-78371-585-51-84964-020-30-585-42577-9(CKB)111056486517304(OCoLC)50811084(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001150(SSID)ssj0000170691(PQKBManifestationID)12054896(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170691(PQKBWorkID)10224199(PQKB)10776309(MiAaPQ)EBC3386069(MiAaPQ)EBC5390968(Au-PeEL)EBL3386069(CaPaEBR)ebr2001150(CaONFJC)MIL987223(OCoLC)923330213(EXLCZ)9911105648651730420001102d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe hidden famine[electronic resource] poverty, hunger, and sectarianism in Belfast, 1840-50 /Christine Kinealy and Gerard MacAtasney1st ed.London Pluto Press20001 online resource (251 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1371-X 0-7453-1376-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes 1-5 -- 16-39 -- 40-41 -- Part 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? -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-71 -- 72-119 -- Part II: A National Crisis, c. 1845-47 -- 2 A 'Man-Made Famine' -- An Unusual Blight -- Local Responses -- 'Absolute Danger of Starvation' -- 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett -- A Divided Society -- Notes 1-45 -- 46-85 -- 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 -- Notes 1-3 -- 4-46 -- 47-94 -- 95-100 -- 4 An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47 -- Institutional Responses to Disease -- Fever Follows Famine -- Great and Peculiar -- Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials -- 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors' -- 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money' -- The Amended Poor Law -- Judgment upon Our Land -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-83 -- 84-126 -- 127-148 -- Part III: A Divided Town -- 5 Public and Private Responses -- Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law -- Private Philanthropy -- Women and Philanthropy -- 'Thorough Evangelization' -- Charity and Conversion -- The Bible and Protestant Dominion -- Notes 1-12 -- 13-56 -- 57-102 -- 103-123 -- 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.Notes 1-30 -- 31-79 -- 80-127 -- 128-144 -- 8 Aftermath. 'A Hell below a Hell' -- Notes 1-27 -- 28-54 -- Appendices -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index -- Abercorn, Marquis of, 179 -- Aberdeen Ladies' Association, 126 -- Achill 125 -- Act of Union -- 4 -- 7 -- 147 -- 150 -- 156 -- 159 -- Adelaide [Australia] 55 -- Albert, Prince -- 176 -- 178 -- 179 -- 181 -- Alfred Street 20 -- Amended Poor Law -- 99 -- 109 -- 110 -- America -- 2 -- 136 -- 144 -- Anderson, Dr -- 89-91 -- 101 -- Annette Street 20 -- Antrim -- County of, 23 -- County of, 39 -- County of, 41 -- County of, 49 -- County of, 56 -- County of, 62 -- County of, 81 -- Grand Jury of, 26 -- Turnpike, 19 -- Ardoyne 34 -- Armagh, County of -- 4 -- 15 -- 54 -- 126 -- 181 -- Arran Islands 128 -- Australia -- 144 -- 167 -- 168 -- Bakeries -- Bernard Hughes, 62 -- Bernard Hughes, 73 -- Church Street, 63 -- Elliotts, 63 -- Balderg [Co. Mayo] 127 -- Ball, R 104 -- Ballycastle [Co.Mayo] 130 -- Ballydolaghan 66 -- Ballyduggan House 66 -- Ballygomartin 29 -- Ballyhackamore -- 29 -- 33 -- 73 -- 118 -- 122 -- 188 -- Ballymacarrett -- 5 -- 9-10 -- 16-18 -- 21 -- 29 -- emigration society, 50-1 -- emigration society, 144 -- relief committee, 48-50 -- relief committee, 52-3 -- relief committee, 62 -- relief committee, 66-7 -- relief committee, 70 -- temporary cholera ward, 170 -- Ballymena -- 15 -- 62 -- railway, 164 -- Ballymote [Co.Mayo] 128 -- Ballymurphy 29 -- Ballynafeigh -- 73 -- 98 -- 118 -- Ballysillan 29 -- Bangor 190 -- Banner of Ulster -- 6 -- 41 -- 47-8 -- 51 -- 58-9 -- 61 -- Bantry [Co.Cork] -- 9 -- 67 -- 118 -- Barrack Street -- 88 -- 91 -- 111 -- 142 -- 174 -- Bateson -- Lady, 20 -- Robert, 20 -- Belfast -- Board of Guardians, 5 -- Board of Guardians, 50 -- Board of Guardians, 70 -- Board of Guardians, 81 -- Board of Guardians, 83-91 -- Board of Guardians, 94-7.Board of Health, 90-1 -- Board of Health, 93-4 -- Board of Health, 96 -- Board of Health, 98-9 -- Board of Health, 101-2 -- Charitable Society, 24 -- Charitable Society, 28-9 -- Charitable Society, 34 -- Charitable Society, 88 -- Charitable Society, 91-2 -- Charitable Society, 95-8 -- Chess Club, 73 -- College Hospital, 111 -- College Hospital, 141-2 -- College Hospital, 185 -- Court House, 97 -- Deaf and Dumb Institute, 181 -- Destitute Sick Society, 118 -- General Dispensary, 71 -- General Hospital, 85-91 -- General Hospital, 95-6 -- General Hospital, 101 -- General Hospital, 112 -- General Hospital, 169 -- General Relief Fund, 67 -- General Relief Fund, 87 -- General Relief Fund, 98 -- General Relief Fund, 117-20 -- Harbour Commissioners, 177 -- House of Correction, 61 -- House of Correction, 73 -- House of Correction, 79 -- House of Correction, 97 -- House of Correction, 101 -- House of Industry, 22-4 -- House of Industry, 27 -- House of Industry, 30-1 -- Insane Asylum, 24 -- Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 120 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 71 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 73 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 120 -- Ladies' Clothing Society, 73 -- Ladies' Industrial Association for Connaught, 124 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 114 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 181 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 71 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 73-4 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 89 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 101 -- Lough, 164 -- Lough, 179 -- Loyal National Repeal Association, 148 -- Music Hall, 73 -- Music Hall, 149.Natural Historical and Philosophical Society, 165 -- Newsletter , 3 -- Newsletter , 6 -- Newsletter , 16 -- Newsletter , 26-7 -- Newsletter , 32-3 -- Newsletter , 40 -- Newsletter , 48 -- Orange Lodges, 1 -- Orange Lodges, 153 -- Orange Lodges, 157 -- Orange Lodges, 171 -- Poor House, 22 -- Poor House, 24 -- Poor House, 28-9 -- Poor House, 170 -- Port, 143 -- Protestant Journal 6 -- Protestant Journal 54-6 -- Protestant Journal 104 -- Protestant Journal 172 -- Relief Committee, 50-1 -- Relief Committee, 62 -- Relief Committee, 66 -- Relief Committee, 70 -- Relief Committee, 72 -- Relief Committee, 75 -- Relief Committee, 84 -- Religious Tract Society, 136 -- Repeal Association, 172 -- Society for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Working Classes, 45 -- Surgical Hospital, 30 -- Teetotal Association, 178 -- Town Council, 39 -- Town Council, 48 -- Town Council, 58 -- Town Council, 95 -- Town Council, 113 -- Town Mission, 59 -- Town Mission, 136 -- Vindicator , 3 -- Vindicator , 8 -- Vindicator , 40-1 -- Vindicator , 46 -- Vindicator , 48 -- Vindicator , 59 -- Wire works, 46 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 83-91 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 97 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 118 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 140 -- Workhouse graveyard, 95-7 -- Workhouse graveyard, 95-7 -- Workhouse graveyard, 99 -- Workhouse graveyard, 99 -- Workhouse graveyard, 112-13 -- Workhouse graveyard, 112-13 -- Workhouse graveyard, 140 -- Workhouse graveyard, 140 -- Workhouse, 5-6 -- Workhouse, 34 -- Workhouse, 81-90 -- Workhouse, 94-5 -- Bell's Lane 20 -- Birmingham 175 -- Black, Christopher 71 -- Blackiston, Richard 22 -- Blackstaff New Road -- 96 -- nuisance, 58 -- Blair, Tony 2 -- Botanic Gardens -- 181 -- Road, 20 -- Boyd, John -- 67 -- 87 -- Brady's Row 186 -- Brannigan, Michael 130-1 -- Brennan, Bernard 88.Bright, John 175 -- Bristol 82 -- British Association for the Advancement of Science 165 -- British Association for the Relief of Distress in the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland 113 -- British North America -- 16 -- 23 -- British Relief Association 131 -- British Treasury 10 -- Brookehill 55-6 -- Brown Street 172 -- Brown, Samuel 71 -- Browne, Dr 170 -- Bucklebeggar 19 -- Bunker's Hill House 42 -- Burns, James -- 42-3 -- 45 -- Calcutta 55 -- Campbell, Patrick 2 -- Canada -- 16 -- 33 -- 51 -- 143 -- 145 -- Carnmoney -- 17 -- 20 -- 22-3 -- 29 -- Carr, Biddy 30 -- Carrick Hill 72 -- Carrickfergus -- 13 -- 172 -- Castlereagh -- 29 -- 188 -- Castlewellan 175 -- Casual poor -- 111-12 -- 141 -- Catholic Church -- 7-8 -- 125 -- 136-7 -- 173 -- Catholic emancipation -- 53 -- 125 -- 134 -- Catholics -- 1 -- 7-10 -- 13 -- 55-6 -- 103-4 -- Cavan, County of -- 15 8 -- 126 -- 188 -- Chichester Street 92 -- Chichester, Lord John 161 -- Cholera -- 6 -- 140-1 -- 165 -- 169-71 -- Christ Church -- 78 -- 114 -- 117 -- Protestant Association, 137 -- Chronicle, The 56 -- Church Lane 46 -- Church Missionary Society 136 -- Church of Ireland -- 7 -- 54 -- 112 -- 125 -- 189 -- Church Street 63 -- Clare, County of 119 -- Clarendon, Lord -- 155 -- 175 -- 179 -- 183 -- Clarke, Edward -- 52-3 -- 73 -- Clarke, John 72 -- Cleary, John 174 -- Clifton Street burial ground 95-6 -- Coffey, Dr 84 -- College Medical District -- 20 -- 71 -- 92 -- College Square North 44 -- Collins, Brenda 3-4 -- Conn's Water Bridge 47 -- Connacht [Connaught] -- 87 -- 119 -- 124 -- 133 -- Cooke, Rev.Dr Henry -- 27-8 -- 32-4 -- 148 -- Copeland Islands -- 91 -- Lighthouse, 179 -- Cork -- City of, 15 -- City of, 81-2 -- City of, 143 -- City of, 178 -- County of, 1 -- County of, 1 -- County of, 6 -- County of, 6 -- County of, 21 -- County of, 21 -- County of, 67 -- County of, 67.County of, 72.Examines the impact of Ireland's Great Famine on the city of Belfast.FaminesNorthern IrelandBelfastHistory19th centuryPoorNorthern IrelandBelfastHistory19th centuryPovertyNorthern IrelandBelfastHistory19th centuryBelfast (Northern Ireland)Church historyBelfast (Northern Ireland)HistoryBelfast (Northern Ireland)Social conditionsIrelandHistoryFamine, 1845-1852FaminesHistoryPoorHistoryPovertyHistory941.67081Kinealy Christine1611889MacAtasney Gerard1611890MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819713503321The hidden famine3940359UNINA