Research Guides: Irish Studies: The Great Famine

Museum Catalog on Reserve in the ABL

A guide to Ireland's Great Hunger Museum by Quinnipiac University
Call Number: Reserve Desk - Shelved by Title

Publication Date: Quinnipiac University, 2012

Contents
The collection -- Welcome to the museum -- Foreword / John L. Lahey, President, Quinnipiac University -- Message from the president / Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland -- Lines of sorrow: representing Ireland's Great Hunger / Niamh O'Sullivan, Curator, Inaugural Exhibition, Ireland's Great Hunger Museum -- Framing the Great Hunger / Christine Kinealy -- Ireland: a brief overview -- The potato blight -- The British response -- Exports in famine times -- Private relief efforts -- Letters to The Cork Examiner -- Emigration and "Coffin ships" -- Population and expenditures -- Two prime ministers -- Irish-American diaspora -- Memorials worldwide -- British Parliamentary Papers -- Permanent collection.

Some outside websites to check out

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
The mission of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University is to collect, preserve, exhibit and study its collection of art, artifacts and literature relating to the Irish Famine/Great Hunger that occurred from 1845–52. In doing so, it seeks to educate audiences of all ages about the underlying political, social, economic and historic causes to the Great Hunger, and the magnitude of the disaster on Ireland and its people. The museum contains the world’s largest collection of Great Hunger-related art by noted contemporary Irish and Irish American artists as well as a number of period paintings by some of Ireland’s most important 19th-century artists.
Views of the Famine from Vassar College
Contains images from:
The Illustrated London News
The Cork Examiner (Weekly, 1846-1847)
The Pictoral Times
Punch
Oxford to Skibbereen

and also includes a Master Picture List
Ireland's History in Maps
History + Geography + Genealogy
With a Special Focus on Ancient and Medieval Irish Tribes
coverage ends in the 1840's
Ireland Census Records
Ireland is unusual among English-speaking census-taking countries in that our original household manuscript returns survive. These are the forms filled out and signed by the head of each household on census night. Most other countries only have Enumerators' books, where family details were transcribed by the person charged with collecting the census information.
The basic topographical divisions for the census are: County; District Electoral Division; Townland or Street. This is a simple hierarchical structure which makes it easy to access any area in the country. The returns are arranged in clusters by townland/street within district electoral division within county. For each townland/street, there are a number of original household returns, filled in and signed by heads of households, and three statistical returns, dealing with religious denominations, classification of buildings, and out-offices and farm-steadings, filled out by the Enumerator for that townland/street.