The Hidden Famine : Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes 1-5 -- 16-39 -- 40-41 -- Part I: The 'Old' Poor Law, c. 1640-1845 -- 1 An 'Un-National Town' -- The Industrial Capital of Ireland -- The Athens of the North? -- Housing and Diet -- Strategies for Survival -- A Poor Law for Ireland -- The Hungry Forties? -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-71 -- 72-119 -- Part II: A National Crisis, c. 1845-47 -- 2 A 'Man-Made Famine' -- An Unusual Blight -- Local Responses -- 'Absolute Danger of Starvation' -- 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett -- A Divided Society -- Notes 1-45 -- 46-85 -- 3 'All the Horrors of Famine' -- Belfast in Crisis -- Protest and Riot -- 'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger' -- Desolation and Distress Unparalleled -- 'The Glorious Principle of Self- Reliance' -- Poverty on the Streets -- Notes 1-3 -- 4-46 -- 47-94 -- 95-100 -- 4 An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47 -- Institutional Responses to Disease -- Fever Follows Famine -- Great and Peculiar -- Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials -- 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors' -- 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money' -- The Amended Poor Law -- Judgment upon Our Land -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-83 -- 84-126 -- 127-148 -- Part III: A Divided Town -- 5 Public and Private Responses -- Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law -- Private Philanthropy -- Women and Philanthropy -- 'Thorough Evangelization' -- Charity and Conversion -- The Bible and Protestant Dominion -- Notes 1-12 -- 13-56 -- 57-102 -- 103-123 -- 6 Conflict and Rebellion -- Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse -- Emigration and Removal -- 'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day' -- The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising -- The Rate-in-Aid Dispute -- 7 'The Crisis is Passed' -- The Path to Recovery -- The Cholera Epidemic -- Orange against Green -- A Royal Visit.

Notes 1-30 -- 31-79 -- 80-127 -- 128-144 -- 8 Aftermath. 'A Hell below a Hell' -- Notes 1-27 -- 28-54 -- Appendices -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index -- Abercorn, Marquis of, 179 -- Aberdeen Ladies' Association, 126 -- Achill 125 -- Act of Union -- 4 -- 7 -- 147 -- 150 -- 156 -- 159 -- Adelaide [Australia] 55 -- Albert, Prince -- 176 -- 178 -- 179 -- 181 -- Alfred Street 20 -- Amended Poor Law -- 99 -- 109 -- 110 -- America -- 2 -- 136 -- 144 -- Anderson, Dr -- 89-91 -- 101 -- Annette Street 20 -- Antrim -- County of, 23 -- County of, 39 -- County of, 41 -- County of, 49 -- County of, 56 -- County of, 62 -- County of, 81 -- Grand Jury of, 26 -- Turnpike, 19 -- Ardoyne 34 -- Armagh, County of -- 4 -- 15 -- 54 -- 126 -- 181 -- Arran Islands 128 -- Australia -- 144 -- 167 -- 168 -- Bakeries -- Bernard Hughes, 62 -- Bernard Hughes, 73 -- Church Street, 63 -- Elliotts, 63 -- Balderg [Co. Mayo] 127 -- Ball, R 104 -- Ballycastle [Co.Mayo] 130 -- Ballydolaghan 66 -- Ballyduggan House 66 -- Ballygomartin 29 -- Ballyhackamore -- 29 -- 33 -- 73 -- 118 -- 122 -- 188 -- Ballymacarrett -- 5 -- 9-10 -- 16-18 -- 21 -- 29 -- emigration society, 50-1 -- emigration society, 144 -- relief committee, 48-50 -- relief committee, 52-3 -- relief committee, 62 -- relief committee, 66-7 -- relief committee, 70 -- temporary cholera ward, 170 -- Ballymena -- 15 -- 62 -- railway, 164 -- Ballymote [Co.Mayo] 128 -- Ballymurphy 29 -- Ballynafeigh -- 73 -- 98 -- 118 -- Ballysillan 29 -- Bangor 190 -- Banner of Ulster -- 6 -- 41 -- 47-8 -- 51 -- 58-9 -- 61 -- Bantry [Co.Cork] -- 9 -- 67 -- 118 -- Barrack Street -- 88 -- 91 -- 111 -- 142 -- 174 -- Bateson -- Lady, 20 -- Robert, 20 -- Belfast -- Board of Guardians, 5 -- Board of Guardians, 50 -- Board of Guardians, 70 -- Board of Guardians, 81 -- Board of Guardians, 83-91 -- Board of Guardians, 94-7.

Board of Health, 90-1 -- Board of Health, 93-4 -- Board of Health, 96 -- Board of Health, 98-9 -- Board of Health, 101-2 -- Charitable Society, 24 -- Charitable Society, 28-9 -- Charitable Society, 34 -- Charitable Society, 88 -- Charitable Society, 91-2 -- Charitable Society, 95-8 -- Chess Club, 73 -- College Hospital, 111 -- College Hospital, 141-2 -- College Hospital, 185 -- Court House, 97 -- Deaf and Dumb Institute, 181 -- Destitute Sick Society, 118 -- General Dispensary, 71 -- General Hospital, 85-91 -- General Hospital, 95-6 -- General Hospital, 101 -- General Hospital, 112 -- General Hospital, 169 -- General Relief Fund, 67 -- General Relief Fund, 87 -- General Relief Fund, 98 -- General Relief Fund, 117-20 -- Harbour Commissioners, 177 -- House of Correction, 61 -- House of Correction, 73 -- House of Correction, 79 -- House of Correction, 97 -- House of Correction, 101 -- House of Industry, 22-4 -- House of Industry, 27 -- House of Industry, 30-1 -- Insane Asylum, 24 -- Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 120 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 71 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 73 -- Ladies' Association for the Relief of Irish Destitution, 120 -- Ladies' Clothing Society, 73 -- Ladies' Industrial Association for Connaught, 124 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 114 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Distress in Connaught, 181 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 71 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 73-4 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 89 -- Ladies' Society for the Relief of Local Destitution, 101 -- Lough, 164 -- Lough, 179 -- Loyal National Repeal Association, 148 -- Music Hall, 73 -- Music Hall, 149.

Natural Historical and Philosophical Society, 165 -- Newsletter , 3 -- Newsletter , 6 -- Newsletter , 16 -- Newsletter , 26-7 -- Newsletter , 32-3 -- Newsletter , 40 -- Newsletter , 48 -- Orange Lodges, 1 -- Orange Lodges, 153 -- Orange Lodges, 157 -- Orange Lodges, 171 -- Poor House, 22 -- Poor House, 24 -- Poor House, 28-9 -- Poor House, 170 -- Port, 143 -- Protestant Journal 6 -- Protestant Journal 54-6 -- Protestant Journal 104 -- Protestant Journal 172 -- Relief Committee, 50-1 -- Relief Committee, 62 -- Relief Committee, 66 -- Relief Committee, 70 -- Relief Committee, 72 -- Relief Committee, 75 -- Relief Committee, 84 -- Religious Tract Society, 136 -- Repeal Association, 172 -- Society for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Working Classes, 45 -- Surgical Hospital, 30 -- Teetotal Association, 178 -- Town Council, 39 -- Town Council, 48 -- Town Council, 58 -- Town Council, 95 -- Town Council, 113 -- Town Mission, 59 -- Town Mission, 136 -- Vindicator , 3 -- Vindicator , 8 -- Vindicator , 40-1 -- Vindicator , 46 -- Vindicator , 48 -- Vindicator , 59 -- Wire works, 46 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 83-91 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 97 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 118 -- Workhouse fever hospital, 140 -- Workhouse graveyard, 95-7 -- Workhouse graveyard, 95-7 -- Workhouse graveyard, 99 -- Workhouse graveyard, 99 -- Workhouse graveyard, 112-13 -- Workhouse graveyard, 112-13 -- Workhouse graveyard, 140 -- Workhouse graveyard, 140 -- Workhouse, 5-6 -- Workhouse, 34 -- Workhouse, 81-90 -- Workhouse, 94-5 -- Bell's Lane 20 -- Birmingham 175 -- Black, Christopher 71 -- Blackiston, Richard 22 -- Blackstaff New Road -- 96 -- nuisance, 58 -- Blair, Tony 2 -- Botanic Gardens -- 181 -- Road, 20 -- Boyd, John -- 67 -- 87 -- Brady's Row 186 -- Brannigan, Michael 130-1 -- Brennan, Bernard 88.

Bright, John 175 -- Bristol 82 -- British Association for the Advancement of Science 165 -- British Association for the Relief of Distress in the Highlands of Scotland and Ireland 113 -- British North America -- 16 -- 23 -- British Relief Association 131 -- British Treasury 10 -- Brookehill 55-6 -- Brown Street 172 -- Brown, Samuel 71 -- Browne, Dr 170 -- Bucklebeggar 19 -- Bunker's Hill House 42 -- Burns, James -- 42-3 -- 45 -- Calcutta 55 -- Campbell, Patrick 2 -- Canada -- 16 -- 33 -- 51 -- 143 -- 145 -- Carnmoney -- 17 -- 20 -- 22-3 -- 29 -- Carr, Biddy 30 -- Carrick Hill 72 -- Carrickfergus -- 13 -- 172 -- Castlereagh -- 29 -- 188 -- Castlewellan 175 -- Casual poor -- 111-12 -- 141 -- Catholic Church -- 7-8 -- 125 -- 136-7 -- 173 -- Catholic emancipation -- 53 -- 125 -- 134 -- Catholics -- 1 -- 7-10 -- 13 -- 55-6 -- 103-4 -- Cavan, County of -- 15 8 -- 126 -- 188 -- Chichester Street 92 -- Chichester, Lord John 161 -- Cholera -- 6 -- 140-1 -- 165 -- 169-71 -- Christ Church -- 78 -- 114 -- 117 -- Protestant Association, 137 -- Chronicle, The 56 -- Church Lane 46 -- Church Missionary Society 136 -- Church of Ireland -- 7 -- 54 -- 112 -- 125 -- 189 -- Church Street 63 -- Clare, County of 119 -- Clarendon, Lord -- 155 -- 175 -- 179 -- 183 -- Clarke, Edward -- 52-3 -- 73 -- Clarke, John 72 -- Cleary, John 174 -- Clifton Street burial ground 95-6 -- Coffey, Dr 84 -- College Medical District -- 20 -- 71 -- 92 -- College Square North 44 -- Collins, Brenda 3-4 -- Conn's Water Bridge 47 -- Connacht [Connaught] -- 87 -- 119 -- 124 -- 133 -- Cooke, Rev.Dr Henry -- 27-8 -- 32-4 -- 148 -- Copeland Islands -- 91 -- Lighthouse, 179 -- Cork -- City of, 15 -- City of, 81-2 -- City of, 143 -- City of, 178 -- County of, 1 -- County of, 1 -- County of, 6 -- County of, 6 -- County of, 21 -- County of, 21 -- County of, 67 -- County of, 67.

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Examines the impact of Ireland's Great Famine on the city of Belfast.

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