The Death Census of Black '47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland's Great Famine - Hardcover

by Liam Kennedy (Author), Donald M. Macraild (Author), Lewis Darwen (Author)

The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. 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.

Author Biography

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.