Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics

Enda Delaney is Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. Breandán Mac Suibhne is Associate Professor of History at Centenary College, New Jersey.

• Editors’ Introduction: ‘To Assert Even the Animal’s Right of Existence’ Enda Delaney and Breandán Mac Suibhne 1. ‘’Tis Hard to Argue Starvation into Quiet’: Protest and Resistance, 1846–47 John Cunningham 2. ‘The Tottering, Fluttering, Palpitating Mass’: Power and Hunger in Nineteenth Century Literary Responses to the Great Famine Melissa Fegan 3. Soup and Providence: Varieties of Protestantism and the Great Famine David W. Miller 4. Walking Backward to Heaven?: Edmond Ronayne’s Pilgrimage in Famine Ireland and Gilded Age America Kerby A. Miller and Ellen Skerrett, with Bridget Kelly 5. The Great Famine, Land and the Making of the Graziers David S. Jones 6. Aspects of Agency: John Ross Mahon, Accommodation and Resistance on the Strokestown Estate, 1845–51 Ciarán Reilly 7. ‘Bastard Ribbonism’: The Molly Maguires, the Uneven Failure of Entitlement and the Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment Breandán Mac Suibhne