Welcome Christine Kineally
Back To Phoenix

You may recall that Christine Kinealy is a world-renown author and Professor in History at Central Lancashire University in England. She lectures in modern Irish history, which includes a third year option on the Irish Famine. She has also introduced a new course on Ireland in Film. Her publication, 'This Great Calamity. The Irish Famine 1845-52’ (Gill and Macmillan, 1994) was also published in America. It was nominated for the Irish Times Literary Award and won the Irish Post Books award in 1995. She is currently undertaking research on the history of the Orange Order in the Nineteenth Century. She has lectured extensively in Ireland and America on different aspects of Irish History and she has also lectured in the British House of Commons and in the American Congress on the Irish Famine.

We are fortunate to have Dr. Kinealy back in Phoenix for a speaking engagement on:

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.

This will be an evening that you will never forget!

The presentation will be held at the

Sacks Tierney Law Offices located at:
4250 N. Drinkwater Blvd. (formerly Civic Center)
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251

(North of Indian School Road, 1 block east of Scottsdale Road)

A minimal fee of $6.00 per person is collected at the door to help with the cost of bringing this fine presentation to you.

For questions or further information, please contact: David Tierney at (480) 425-2620.

A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

by Christine Kinealy

The Irish Famine of 1945-52, although a pivotal event in the development of modern Ireland, was for decades marginalized or ignored by Irish historians. In examining the reasons for this silence, Famine expert Christine Kinealy demonstrates how many current attitudes and arguments about the Famine were evident during the event itself. The influences that shaped the responses to the Famine represent a core theme of this book.

Dr. Kinealy focuses on the key factors, which nurtured both policy formulations and the unfolding of events in mid-nineteenth century Ireland. These include political ideologies, such as the influential doctrine of political economy; providentialist ideas which ordained that the potato blight was a 'judgment of God'; and an opportunistic interpretation of the crisis that viewed the Famine and the consequent social dislocation as an opportunity to reconstruct Irish society. Kinealy also examines the roles of the Irish landlords and merchants, political factors in Westminster and the pivotal role played by civil servants within the British government.