The great Irish Famine: A crime of free market economics

Monthly Review

Volumn 47, Issue APR, 1996, Pages 11-19

  Newsinger, John ^a  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1542534591     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/mr-047-11-1996-04_2     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin: Gill, 1913), pp. 426-427. Mitchel's radicalism was to be corroded after he arrived in the United States where he emerged as a staunch supporter of black slavery. This reactionary racist stance ate away at his radical commitment until all that remained was his support for an Irish Republic. There is no modern biography of John Mitchel but see my "John Mitchel and Irish Nationalism," Literature and History 6, v. 2 (Autumn 1980).
2. John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin: Gill, 1913), pp. 426-427. Mitchel's radicalism was to be corroded after he arrived in the United States where he emerged as a staunch supporter of black slavery. This reactionary racist stance ate away at his radical commitment until all that remained was his support for an Irish Republic. There is no modern biography of John Mitchel but see my "John Mitchel and Irish Nationalism," Literature and History 6, v. 2 (Autumn 1980).
3. G.P. Gooch ed., The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell 1840-1878 (London: I. Longmans, Green and Co., 1925), p. 161.
4. Christine Kinealy, The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1994), p. 353. See also Frederick W. Powell, The Politics of Irish Social Policy (Lampeter: Edwin Meilen Press, 1992), pp. 96-101.
5. Christine Kinealy, The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1994), p. 353. See also Frederick W. Powell, The Politics of Irish Social Policy (Lampeter: Edwin Meilen Press, 1992), pp. 96-101.
6. Donald Kerr, A Nation of Beggars? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 37.
7. Cormac Ó Grada, Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939 (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1994), p. 191.
8. For more on anti-Irish racism in Britain, see Hazel Waters, "The Great Famine and the Rise of anti-Irish racism," Race and Class 37, v. 1 (July-September, 1995).
9. Kerr, A Nation of Beggars, p. 56.
10. R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Penguin, 1989), p. 374. He writes "of the terrible clearances of the late 1840s and early 1850s . . . of the 90,000 evictions apparently recorded from 1847 to 1900, 50,000 took place between 1847 and 1850," And that is all the fate of the poor get in the standard history! See instead James S. Donnelly Jr., "Mass Eviction and the Great Famine: The Clearances Revisited" in Cathal Poirteir, The Great Irish Famine (Cork: Mercier Press, 1995). Donnelly insists on a figure of over a half million people evicted for the years 1846-1854.
11. R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Penguin, 1989), p. 374. He writes "of the terrible clearances of the late 1840s and early 1850s . . . of the 90,000 evictions apparently recorded from 1847 to 1900, 50,000 took place between 1847 and 1850," And that is all the fate of the poor get in the standard history! See instead James S. Donnelly Jr., "Mass Eviction and the Great Famine: The Clearances Revisited" in Cathal Poirteir, The Great Irish Famine (Cork: Mercier Press, 1995). Donnelly insists on a figure of over a half million people evicted for the years 1846-1854.
12. John Killeen ed., The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accounts: 1841-1851 (Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1995), pp. 232-233.
13. Donnelly, "Mass Eviction and the Great Famine," p. 163.
14. Ibid., p. 164.
15. Kerr, A Nation of Beggars, p. 333.
16. Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (London: Constable, 1970), pp. 322-323.
17. Mitchel, John, Jail Journal, xxxix; id., The History of Ireland (Glasgow, 1869), pp. 214-215.
18. Mitchel, John, Jail Journal, xxxix; id., The History of Ireland (Glasgow, 1869), pp. 214-215.
19. On 1848 in Ireland see my Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain (London: Pluto Press, 1994).