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Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
27-Jul-13 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
on 15th July 10.04 I gave an extract from Dr. Stephen Davies. His piece gave these sources,
•David George Boyce and Alan O'Day, eds., The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (London: Routledge, 1996). See also Joel Mokyr, Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850 (London: Unwin Hyman, 1983).
• Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849 (New York: Harper Row, 1962).
• William D. Rubinstein, Britain's Century: A Political and Social History 1815–1905 (London: Arnold, 1998), p. 90.
• S. J Connolly, ed., The Oxford Companion to Irish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 438.


Read more: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/lessons-of-history-the-great-irish-famine#ixzz2aH9yK9o7

On 15 Jul 13 - 04:45 PM I quoted Robert Nielson.

On 16 Jul 13 - 06:17 AM

The revisionist response & interpretation: from the foreword to The Great Famine
R. Dudley Edwards & T. Desmond Williams (eds.), The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845-52, 1956

On 17th July Guest grumpy linked to Christine Keneally, whose piece supported the revisionist view.

On 19th july JTT linked to "a short piece" also revisionist.

All proper historians.