What is inside?

While most are familiar with the potato shortages which precipitated the famine of the 1840s in Ireland, other shortages are less well known about. One such example is 1822. This report, compiled by the committee set up to alleviate the distress in Ireland, details the devastating effects of the potato shortage on a large part of the population and the steps taken to aid the starving. This publication includes the report of the committee and the appendix. The appendix constitutes the bulk of this publication with extracts from many on the situation throughout the country, efforts made to alleviate the suffering and the success of those efforts. The report concludes with “Addresses to the Peasantry” of Ireland and how the surplus donations should be dealt with. This report provides a remarkable insight in to the attitude of those in power to distress in Ireland, as well as the systems in place to deal with the distress which were to prove so inadequate little more than 23 years later.

• Parliamentary Reports / Papers
• Social history
• Ireland
• Poverty/Famine

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