Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine
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- ISBN 9781839984310
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is based on a large volume of reports on social conditions in the Irish localities, emanating from within those localities, that has never been used systematically by historians. It bears the compelling title of the ‘Death Census’. Most historians are simply unaware of its existence. The outstanding feature of the Death Census is that it was authored by local clergymen who lived among the people they served and were intimately involved with their lives. This book brings the Death Census together in composite form for the first time and provides a detailed examination of its contents. The result is new understanding of the Great Famine as it was experienced on the ground.
Professor Liam Kennedy is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish economy and society.
Professor Donald M. MacRaild is a leading specialist on the history of the Irish diaspora. He has also published on British diasporas, modern social and labour history, and edits a series on Theory and History for Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr Lewis Darwen specialises in British social and political history. He has longstanding research interests in nineteenth-century social policy, and has published widely in this field.
Dr Brian Gurrin, a demographic historian, is author (with Kerby Miller and Liam Kennedy) of Irish Religious Censuses of the 1760s: Catholics and Protestants in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2022). He is currently a researcher on the ‘Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury’ project.
