Famines in Ireland Before 1845 and After 1852

The following speakers will present at the conference:

Gerard Moran is a researcher at the Social Science Research Centre at NUI, Galway. He also has lectured at Maynooth University. Moran has published extensively on 19th-century Ireland, including the acclaimed “Sending Out Ireland’s Poor” (Four Courts Press, 2013) and “Fleeing from Famine in Connemara” (Four Courts Press, 2018). He is also an editor and contributor to “Children and the Great Hunger” (Quinnipiac and Cork University Press, 2018).  

Ciarán Reilly is one of Ireland‘s leading researchers in the area of the Great Irish Famine, Ireland‘s historic houses and estates, and the Irish diaspora — in particular, the relatively small number who made their homes in what is now South Africa. In 2014, Reilly published two monographs, “The Irish Land Agent, 1830-1860: The Case of King’s County,” and “Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine.” He is also an editor and contributor to “Women and the Great Hunger” (Quinnipiac and Cork University Press, 2016). Reilly was the curator of “1916 and the Irish Country House,” at Maynooth University. 

Christine Kinealy is founding director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University. She has published extensively on the Famine, including the award-winning, “This Great Calamity. The Great Irish Famine, 1845–52” (Gill and Macmillan, 1994 and 2007) and “Charity and the Great Hunger” (Bloomsbury Press, 2013). Her most recent research has focused on the abolition movement in Ireland, and her most recent publication is “Frederick Douglass and Ireland: In His Own Words” (Routledge, 2018).

Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University fosters a deeper understanding of the Great Hunger of Ireland and its causes and consequences through a strategic program of lectures, conferences, course offerings and publications.