Number 32. Winter 1995 €15.00
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Blight, Starvation and Flight (Editorial) 3
Acknowledgements 4
How the Potato came to Ireland by Richard Ahern 5
Pre-Famine Limerick: A Study in Contrasts by Paula Coonerty 10
The Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852 by Thomas P. O'Neill 16
The Famine in Limerick by Kevin Hannan 21
The Onset of Famine: County Clare, 1845-1846 by Ciarán Ó Murchadha 25
Garret Hugh Fitzgerald by Kevin Hannan 32
Baron Monteagle of Brandon and the Famine, 1845-1848 by Charlotte Murphy 33
Limerick Union Workhouse during the Great Famine by Ciarán Ó Murchadha 39
The Workhouse by Kevin Hannan 44
Limerick: Building and the Famine by Judith Hill 46
Richard Osborne at Limerick by K.A. Murray 50
William Monsell, First Baron Emly of Tervoe by Matthew Potter 58
Bread or Blood by Tom Donovan 64
Limerick Quakers and Famine Relief by Rob Goodbody 68
The Great Famine in Murroe (1845-1849) by Mark Tierney 75
‘Potatoes and Providence’: British Government Responses to the Great Famine by Peter Gray 84
Godfrey Massy's Memoirs of the Famine Years in Bruff 92
Pine Coffin Reports compiled by William Murray 97
Meeting of Labourers at Tory Hill 101
Incident at Hospital 102
A Letter from Sir Matthew Barrington, 1846 103
The Construction of the Floating Docks by Mark Tierney 105
‘The Distress of the Lower Class’. Further Government Correspondence from Limerick, 1847 109
Famine Letters by Alexander Sommerville 112
Stephen de Vere's Voyage to Canada, 1847 by P.J. Meghen 136
The evidence of Francis Spaight, July 1847 by Patrick J. O'Connor 141
The Coffin Ships by Kevin Hannan 145
Michael Hogan and the Paupers’ Graveyard by Jim Kemmy 149
The Newcastle West Workhouse by Sean Kelly 151
Vincent de Paul Society, Limerick, and the Famine by Larry Walsh 153
Limerick as I saw it, 1848 by William S. Balch 156
Life and Death in Limerick, 1849 by Spencer T. Hall 160
Gleanings of Limerick, 1850 by S. Godolphin Osborne 165
Emigration from the Workhouses of the Mid-West, 1848-1859: An Overview by Chris O'Mahony 169
The Law and the Famine by Kevin Hannan 172
The Great Famine (Book Review) by G. Kitson Clark 174