xvi, 710 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.

I. Ireland before and after the Great Famine: -- The story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52: a geographical perspective -- 'Mapping the people': the growth and distribution of the population -- The potato: root of the famine.

II. The Great Hunger: -- The longue duree- imperial Britain and colonial Ireland -- The colonial dimensions of the Great Irish Famine -- British relief measures -- The operation of the Poor Law during the famine -- The largest amount of good: Quaker relief efforts -- 'Born astride a grave': the geog...

III. The workhouse: -- The creation of the workhouse system -- Classify, confine, discipline and punish- the Roscrea Union: a microgeography of the workhouse system during the famine -- Ulster workhouses- ideological geometry and conflict.

IV. Population decline and social transformations: -- Mortality and the Great Famine -- 'Variations in vulnerability': understanding where and why the people died -- Medical relief and the Great Famine -- Emigration to North America in the era of the Great Famine, 1845-55 -- The cities and towns of...

V. Witnessing: the famine: -- The Great Famine in gaelic manuscripts -- Asenath Nicholson's Irish journeys -- Thomas Carlyle and famine Ireland -- 'Le pays classique de la faim': France and the Great Irish Famine.

VI. The scattering: -- Exodus from Ireland- patterns of emigration -- Liverpool and the Great Irish Famine -- Irish Famine refugees and the emergence of Glasgow Celtic Football Club -- Black '47 and Toronto, Canada -- The famine and New York City -- The Great Famine and Australia -- 'Week after week...

VII. Legacy: -- Land reform in post-famine Ireland -- Legacy and loss: the Great Silence and its aftermath -- Famine and the Irish diaspora.

VIII. Remembering the Famine: -- The folklore of the famine: Seanchas an Drochshaoil -- Sites of memory -- The big house and famine memory: Strokestown Park House -- Mapping the Great Famine in Irish art -- Literature and the famine.

IX. Hunger and famine today: -- The Great Hunger and today's famines -- Food security, food poverty, food sovereignty: moving beyond labels to a world of change? -- Fighting world hunger in the twenty-first century.