Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy

Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy

Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas. Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response, people around the world and from myriad social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds became involved in Irish famine relief. They included enslaved Black people in Virginia, poor tenant farmers in rural New York, and members of the Cherokee and Choctaw nations, as well as plantation owners in the US south, abolitionists in Pennsylvania, and, politicians in England and Ireland. Most of these people had no personal connection to Ireland. For many, the famine was their first time participating in distant philanthropy.

Anelise Hanson Shrout

• New York University Press
• 9781479824595
• 272 pages
• €33.90
• Hardback
• United States
• Social classes