Introduction Ireland's Great Famine Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the famine, with Joel Mokyr Bankrupt landlords and the Irish famine, with Andres Eiriksson Famine disease and famine mortality, with Joel Mokyr Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine, with Timothy W. Guinnane The market for potatoes in Dublin in the 1840s Mass migration as disaster relief, with Kevin H. O'Rourke The New York irish in the 1850s The Famine, the New York Irish, and their bank The Great Famine and other famines Famine, trauma and memory Making famine history in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s Making famine history in Ireland in 1995 Notes Bibliography Index.