Great Famine: References & Edit History
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Leading works on Ireland’s Great Famine include Joel Mokyr, Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850 (1983; reprinted 2006); Cormac Ó Gráda, The Great Irish Famine (1989, reissued 1995), and Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (2000); Austin Bourke, The Visitation of God?: The Potato and the Great Irish Famine, ed. by Jacqueline Hill and Cormac Ó Gráda (1993); Cathal Póirtéir (ed.), The Great Irish Famine (1995); and James S. Donnelly, The Great Irish Potato Famine (2001).
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Joel Mokyr is Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is the joint winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - The Irish Famine. | Oct 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - The Great Famine: Decoded. | Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Potato Famine. | Jul 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - How Infecion Shaped Histtory: Lessons From The Irish Famine. | Jun 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - Understanding the Irish Famine. | Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - McGrath Institute for Church Life - The Irish Potato Famine. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Irish Famine: How Ulster was devastated by its impact. | Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum - Learn About the Great Hunger. | May 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Ireland - Potato Famine - 1846-1849. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Irish Potato Famine. | Aug 18, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Ireland - Epidemic Diseases of the Great Famine. | Jun 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: EH.net - Ireland�s Great Famine. | Mar 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Teach Democracy - The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America. | Jan 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - The Irish Potato Famine. | Apr 01, 2022 | ||
| Article revised and expanded. | Jul 27, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ask about Ireland - The Great Famine - An Gorta M�r. | Nov 07, 2019 | ||
| Noted that between 1841 and 1850, 49 percent of the total immigrants to the United States were Irish. | Oct 03, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 08, 2019 | ||
| Noted that Russell maintained Peel's policy regarding grain exports from Ireland but otherwise took a laissez faire approach to the plight of the Irish. |
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Apr 04, 2017 | |
| Add new Web site: BioWeb - The Irish Potato Famine. | Dec 16, 2016 | ||
| Revised and expanded article to give more background to the famine and further address the British response. | Jan 28, 2016 | ||
| Updated and expanded bibliography. | Jan 28, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 28, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - The Irish Famine. | Nov 21, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Great Famine of 1845. | Nov 21, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - History - The Irish Famine. | Jul 20, 2014 | ||
| Added video. | Mar 12, 2014 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 08, 2011 | ||
| Revised famine's death toll and emigration numbers. | Feb 09, 2010 | ||
| Changed classification of late blight from "fungus" to "water mold." | Sep 25, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | May 04, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: International World History Project - Famine in Ireland. | Sep 05, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Feb 05, 2000 |
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