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Click2Disasters - The Great Hunger
Offers detailed history of the Irish Potato Famine, from potato blight to mass exodus, with links to primary sources.
www.click2disasters.com
An etext of an 1847 book concerning the crisis of famine in Ireland.
www.quinnipiac.edu
Explanation of the blight that destroyed the potatoe crop, leading to a widespread famine.
www.victorianweb.org
Extensive information includes a map of Ireland, science of the potato blight and emigration.
www.humboldt1.com
The History Place - Irish Potato Famine
Six chapters covering all aspects of the 1845 potato crop failure. Includes an overview, a look at the effects, so called 'coffin ships' and subsequent emigration. Provides illustrations.
www.historyplace.com
An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine, from answers.com.
www.answers.com
Text by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.
history-world.org
Lord Lucan and the Irish Potato Famine
Fifteen-page transcription from "The Reason Why" published by McGraw-Hill in 1953.
www.usp.nus.edu.sg