ARCHIVES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATED TO THE FIELD OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE Table of contents ARCHIVES 2 Museums 2 Digital archives 2 Course syllabi 2 Other 2 CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE FAMINE 3 Political treatises 3 Historiography 4 Newspaper articles 4 Parliamentary documents 4 Travel narratives and eye-witness accounts 5 Sermons 5 The Irish Diaspora 5 Poetry 6 SECONDARY SOURCES 8 FAMINE FICTION, 1846-1921 32 1 ARCHIVES Museums • Strokestown Park. The Irish National Famine Museum. Co. Roscommon, Ireland. • Ireland's Great Hunger Museum. Quinnipiac University — Hamden, CT, United States. Digital archives • King, Jason. Irish Famine Archive (2015). http://www.faminearchive.nuigalway.ie Course syllabi • The Literary Memory of the Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Literature, 1846-1921 (MA course, Radboud University Nijmegen) • 'That Vast Catastrophe': The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s (BA course, Queen's University Belfast) Other • Andrew Newby's work on Famine in Finland. Codirector Andrew Newby's important work on Finnish famine memorials has received wide coverage across different media. For further information about the project, see the article on the Academy of Finland website. Images of Finnish famine memorials can be found on the project Instagram account. Newby's work on the Finnish famine or suuret nälkävuodet of the 1860s has also resulted in an exhibition at the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland. Newby recently gave an interview about the Strokestown exhibition on RosFM, Roscommon's community radio station. 2 CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE FAMINE (compiled by Marguérite Corporaal and Ciarán Reilly) Political treatises • Adair, Shafto. The Winter of 1846-7 in Antrim; with Remarks on Out-Door Relief and Colonization (London: James Ridgway, 1847). • Anon., Remarks on Ireland; as it is, as it ought to be and as it might be …by a native (London, 1849). • Alcock, T., The tenure of land in Ireland considered (London, 1848). • Allison, William Pulteney. Observations on the Famine of 1846-7, in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood& Sons, 1847). • Campell, Alexander, The farmers and cottagers guide (Dublin, 1848). • Corrigan, D.J. On Famine and Fever as Cause and Effect in Ireland (Dublin: J. Fannin and co., 1846). • Doolan, Thomas. Practical Suggestions on the Improvement of the Present Condition of the Peasantry of Ireland (London: George Barclay, 1847). • Forbes, Robert Bennett. The Jamestown on her Errand of Mercy (Boston: Eastburn’s Press, 1847). • Irish Improvidence Encouraged by English Bounty (London: James Ridgway, 1847). • Lambert, Joseph, Agricultural suggestions to the proprietors and peasantry of Ireland (Dublin, 1845). • Maberly, Mrs. The Present State of Ireland and Its Remedy (London: James Ridgway, 1847). • Mitchel, John. Jail Journal; or, Five Years in British Prisons (New York: Office of “The Citizen”, 1854). • Mitchel, John. The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps). (Dublin: The Irishman Office, 1861). • McNevin, Richard Charles, The practice of the Incumbered Estates Court in Ireland from the presentation of the petition of sale, to the distribution of the funds (Dublin, 1854). • Pim, Jonathan, The conditions and prospects of Ireland and the evils arising from the present distribution of landed property: With suggestions for a remedy (Dublin, 1848). • Pim, Jonathan. Observations on the Evils Resulting to Ireland (Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1847). • Trevelyan, Charles. The Irish Crisis (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848). • Rawsterne, Lawrence, Esq. The Cause of the Potato Disease: Ascertained by Proofs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1847). 3 • Robinson, W.W. The Dawn of Irelands Prosperity: General Employment; Blight of the Potato Crop; A Visitation (Dublin: John Robertson, 1847). • Scrope, G. Poulett. Letters to Lord John Russell, M.P.; on the Further Measures Required for the Social Amelioration of Ireland (London: James Ridgway, 1847) Historiography • Fitzgerald, P.H., The story of the Incumbered Estate Court (London, 1862). • Mitchel, John. The History of Ireland, From the Treaty of Limerick to the Present (Glasgow: Cameron and Ferguson, 1859). • Montgomery, William Ernest. The History of Land Tenure in Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889). • O’Brien, William P., The Great Famine in Ireland and a Retrospect of the Fifty Years 1845–1895, with a Sketch of the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Congested Districts (London: Downey, 1896). • Sullivan, A.M. New Ireland: Political Sketches and Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years of Irish Public Life (Glasgow and London: Cameron and Ferguson, 1877). Newspaper articles • “Another Potato Famine: Emigration to New Brunswick Should be Encouraged”, The Morning Freeman, 19 October 1861. • “Condition of Ireland: Illustrations of the New Poor Law”. The Illustrated London News, 15 December 1849. • “Expulsion of Tenantry”. The Cork Examiner, 20 September 1847. • The Great Irish Famine of 1845– A Collection of Leading Articles, Letters, and Parliamentary and other Public Statements, Reprinted from The Times (London: The Times, 1880), • “The Irish Famine”. The Cork Reporter, 29 April 1847. Parliamentary documents • Correspondence explanatory of measures adopted by H.M. Government for relief of distress arising from failure of potato crop in Ireland, 1846 [735]. • Abstract return of the number of persons employed on Relief Works in the under mentioned counties for the four weeks of July 1846. • Select committee of House of Lords on laws, relating to relief of destitute poor and operation of medical charities in Ireland [1846] (694). • Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the laws relating to the relief of the destitute poor and into the operation of the medical charities in Ireland, together with the minutes of evidence taken before the said committee, 1846 (694) (694–ii) (694–iii). 4 • Correspondence relating to measures for relief of distress in Ireland (Commissariat Series), January-March 1847 [796]. • Correspondence relating to measures for relief of distress in Ireland (Board of Works Series), January-March 1847 [797]. • Papers relating to proceedings for the relief of distress, and the state of Unions and Workhouses in Ireland. Seventh series, 1847–48 [919] [955] [999]. Travel narratives and eye-witness accounts • Bennett, William. Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland (London: Gilpin, 1847). • Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences of my Irish Journey in 1849 (New York: Harper and Sons, 1882). • Cheney, Harriet Vaughan. “Sketches on a Journey”, The Literary Garland VII, no. 8 (1849), 376-79. • Christmas 1846 and the New Year 1847 in Ireland; Letters by a Lady (Durham: G. Andrews, 1847). • Dufferin, Lord and G.G. Boyle. Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to Skibbereen, in the Year of the Famine (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1847). • Hall, Spencer T. Life and Death in Ireland as Witnessed in 1849 (Manchester: Parkes, 1850). • Nicholson, Asenath. Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849 (New York: E. French, 1851). • Smith, William Henry. A Twelve Months’ Residence in Ireland during the Famine and the Public Works, 1846 and 1847 (London: Longman, 1848). • Whyte, Robert. The Ocean’s Plague; or a Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel (Boston: Coolidge and Wiley, 1848). Sermons • Ireland and her Famine; A Discourse, Preached in Paradise Street Chapel, Liverpool on Sunday, January 31, 1847 by James Martineau (London: John Chapman, 1847). • Robinson, John Travers. A Sermon Preached in St. Leonard’s Chapel, Newton Abbott, Devonshire (Feignmouth, E. and G.H.Croydon, 1847). The Irish Diaspora • Davin, Nicholas Flood. The Irishman in Canada (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1877). • “Deaths on Patridge Island Since July 31, 1847”, New Brunswick Courier, 7 August 1847. 5 • Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland, “The Irish Famine”. The Harp. A Magazine of General Literature 2 (1879), 67–9. • Grosse-Isle Emigrant Station. A Letter Addressed to the Inspectors of Hospitals, Prisons and Asylums (Quebec: J.T. Brousseau, 1861). • Hale, Edward E. Letters on Irish Emigration (Boston: Philips, Sampson & Co., 1852). • Halley, William. Speech Delivered at the Dinner of St. Patrick’s Society, Toronto, on the 17th of March, 1860, in Response to the Sentiment of “The Irish Race at Home and Abroad”. (Toronto: n. p., 1860). • Maguire, John Francis. The Irish in America (New York: J. and D. Sadlier, 1868). • McGee, Thomas D’Arcy. “The Exile’s Meditation”, The Poems of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, with Corpious Notes. (New York: D. & J. Sadlier, 1869), 105-106. • “Protestant Violence in Canada”. The Pilot, 3 April 1858. • Return of Orphan girls sent from workhouses in Ireland as emigrants to Australia under arrangements set forth in papers in the commissioners annual report, 1848. • “Sympathy for Famine Suffering”, The New Brunswick Reporter, 12 February 1847. • “The Social Duties of Irishmen in America”. The American Celt, 23 July 1853. • “The Famine in Ireland”. The Pilot, 25 January 1862. • “The Stranger’s Grave”, New Brunswick Courier, 25 September 1847. Poetry • Desolation: A Story of the Irish Famine (London: Nisbet & Co., 1869). • Dufferin, Helen Selina. “The Emigrant Ship”, in Songs, Poems and Verses (Dublin: Murray, 1894), p. 189. • Mangan, James Clarence. “The Warning Voice”, in Poems by James Clarence Mangan, with Biographical Introduction by John Mitchel (New York: P. M. Haverty, 1859), 437- 41. • Mangan, James