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The Irish Crisis

Author: Charles Edward Trevelyan

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Electronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber

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1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 43250 words

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(2015)

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Text ID Number: E840001-002

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Sources

    Further Reading
  1. Jenifer Hart, 'Sir Charles Trevelyan at the Treasury', English Historical Review 75:294 (1960) 92–110.
  2. F. D. Munsell, 'Charles Edward Trevelyan and Peelite Irish famine policy, 1845–6', Societas 1 (1971) 299–315.
  3. Joseph M. Hernon, 'The historian as politican: G.O. Trevelyan as Irish Chief Secretary', Éire-Ireland 8:3 (1973) 3–15.
  4. Joseph M. Hernon, 'A Victorian Cromwell: Sir Charles Trevelyan, the famine and the age of improvement', Éire-Ireland 22:3 (1987) 15–29.
  5. Pat McGregor, '"Insufficient for the support of a family": wages on the Public Works during the Great Irish Famine', Economic & Social Review 35 (2004) 219–239.
  6. Robin F. Haines, Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine (Dublin 2004).
  7. Ciara Boylan, 'Victorian ideologies of improvement: Sir Charles Trevelyan in India and Ireland', in: Tadhg Foley, Maureen O'Connor (eds), Ireland and India: colonies, culture and empire (Dublin 2006).
  8. Peter Gray, 'Charles Trevelyan', in: John Crowley, Mike Murphy, William J. Smyth (eds), Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–52 (Cork 2012) 85–86; 683.
  9. Enda Delaney, The curse of reason: the Great Irish Famine (Dublin 2012).
    Internet Availability
  1. The text is available in various formats at www.archive.org.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Irish Crisis. Charles Edward Trevelyan First edition [201 pages] Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans London (1848)

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Some typographical errors have been rectified. The tables in the footnotes on p. 30 and 75 have been omitted, and some text in the footnote on p. 123 has been omitted too. For these, the reader is referred to the PDF versions on www.archive.org.

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Profile Description

Created: By Charles Edward Trevelyan (1848)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] Some words and phrases are in Irish.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.
Language: [FR] Some words are in French.

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