Irish potato famine (footnotes)

Footnotes

• [1] Robert Kee, The Laurel and the Ivy: The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism p.15.
• [2] Joe Lee, The Modernisation of Irish Society p.1. Cormac Ó Grada suggests the higher number of one million.
• [3] FSL Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine p.42.
• [4] Lee, op.cit p.1.
• [5] Lyons, op.cit p.43.
• [6] ibid. p.43.
• [7] James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria
• [8] John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland
• [9] Lee, op.cit. p.3.
• [10] Of the 166 seats in Dáil Éireann and the 60 seats in Irish Senate (total: 226) Sinn Féin have 5, Republican Sinn Féin 0, Socialist Party 1, Socialist Workers Party 0, Communist Party of Ireland 0.

Additional Reading

• Cormac O'Grada, An Economic History of Ireland
• Robert Kee, Ireland: A History (ISBN 0349106789)
• Joseph Lee, The Modernisation of Irish Society (ISBN 0717105679) (Gill and Macmillan)
• F.S.L. Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine (ISBN 0006860052)
• John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland (1861) (out of print)
• James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria (ISBN 1859183344) (Cork University Press, 2001)
• Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger, 1845-49 (Penguin, 1991 edition)

External links

• For more on the pathogen see http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/mar2001
• Republic of Ireland website (http://www.irlgov.ie)
• Newspaper Reports on the Famine (http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Irish)
• Irish National Archives information on the Famine (http://www.nationalarchives.ie/famine)
• Local History Website on the Famine (http://www.local.ie/general/history/famine/)