John Crowley is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College Cork. He is co-editor of Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, the Atlas of Cork City and co-author of The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry with John Sheehan. William J. Smyth is Emeritus Professor (and former Department Chair) of Geography at University College Cork. He is author of Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, co-editor of Common Ground: Essays on the Historical Geography of Ireland, and editor of the journal Irish Geography. Mike Murphy has been cartographer at the Department of Geography, University College Cork for over twenty-five years. He has worked on the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, Atlas of Cork City (2005) and The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry (2009).
"Cork University Press has established an enviably high reputation
in producing atlases. The latest of the Great Irish Famine
maintains and enhances this record. Not only are the maps
themselves innovative and attractive to look at, but they
communicate clearly an abundance of information, often unfamiliar.
The cartography is accompanied by a wealth of other images,
sometimes strikingly beautiful, and also hauntingly distressful. In
addition, a starry cast of experts provides incisive and
illuminating commentary on all aspects of the disaster. All in all,
this is likely to prove one of the most original and enduring
studies of the grievous famine."
*Toby Barnard,Oxford University*
"This Atlas offers a powerful, unflinching and coherent
understanding of the Irish Famine as the defining event in Irish
history. It balances sweeping survey with minute details, while
always attending to the surprising diversity of this small island
in the mid nineteenth century. Its unparalleled assemblage of new
maps, old images and extensive documentation offers a brilliant
teaching aid for the history of Ireland and of the Irish diaspora.
Firmly rooted in recent research, saturated in meticulous
scholarship, and interdisciplinary in the best sense, it is
unafraid to draw the necessary trenchant conclusions. Its broad
synthesis offers the best overview we have ever had of this
traumatic and defining episode."
*Kevin Whelan,Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin*
"This monumental work is far more than an Atlas, it is the
definitive summary of all aspects of the Great Irish Famine. The
many maps are accompanied by accessible yet scientifically sound
texts. The demographics and geography are surveyed with unequaled
detail and care, yet the historical background, the politics, and
the economics of the Famine are discussed at an equally high
scholarly level. Lavishly illustrated and scholarly immaculate,
written by the best scholars in the field, this volume belongs in
the library of everyone interested in the greatest natural disaster
of the modern age."
*Joel Mokyr,Northwestern University*
"This work offers accounts found in written and oral sources, and
poetry, art, and photography, all enhanced by 200 new digitized
maps to create a picture of this pivotal event."
*Library Journal Reviews*
"The Atlas is an important attempt to give an extremely
wide-ranging and balanced overview of the Great Hunger."
*Durrants*
"Its fascinating information puts the famine into historical
context, illustrated with full-color maps, line drawings, photos,
documents and tables on nearly every page."
*Family Tree Magazine*
"The Atlas achieves the remarkable feat of communicating both the
most technical aspects of the famine as well as the most
emotional...[as] the most thorough portrait of the famine to date,
[it] puts us on the right side--the aware and communicative side,
that is--of history."
*Irish America Review of Books*
"a powerful, unflinching account of the Famine as the defining
event in Irish historyfirmly rooted in recent scholarshipit has
been a long time since an Irish- studies book appeared that
everyone should read"
*Irish Times*
"TheAtlas if the Great Irish Famineis a brave, inventive new work
of scholarship full of facts and ideas for anyone seeking to
understand a pivotal moment in the life if the Irish at home and
abroad."
*Journal of American Ethnic History*
"Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy (geography, geography
emeritus, and cartographer, geography, respectively, University
Coll., Cork, Ireland) have made a valuable contribution to studies
of the Irish famine of the 1840s with this physically immense book
that combines a classic atlas's functions with broader
concerns"
*Library Journal*
"This monumental work is strongly recommended for any library
collection that includes Irish history, US immigration, or studies
of the developing world."
*Choice*
"Sweeping in scope and painstaking in detail, the atlas offers
multiple perspectives and insights by way of first-person oral and
written accounts, poetry, art, photography, and scholarship."
*STARRED Booklist*
"The Atlas is anindispensablereference work and is precisely the
sort of composite effort that will improve our understanding of the
Famine."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Atlas of the Great Irish Faminesucceeds in integrating scholarly
elucidation of the tragedy and exploration of the human cost with
accounts that still have the power to shock after 160 years."
*Victorian Studies*
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