Research by Irish researchers contradicts what Gavin says. Gavin is US based so I don't know what original sources he's used here in Ireland for his research or what original, primary source records he's had access to. While there were crop failures at various times in the nineteenth century in Ireland, they aren't considered by most respected Irish historians as "Famines" because they weren't widespread like the Famine (1845-50) was. There are literally thousands of books published by Irish historians on all facets of emigration (assisted and othewise), evictions, crop failures, the land league, etc. I did my Masters Thesis on those topics and had over ten pages of bibliography. It's not something that can be capsulated in an online link. Oceanstrands --- conaught2 <conaught2@charter.net> wrote: > Ireland had many famines and potato blights. > > There was a crop failure in the late 1720s > > 1739-1741 - This was called Bliadhain an air (the > year of the slaughter), > one fourth of Ireland's population died our of a > population of 2,400,000 > > There were famines in 1800-01, 1816-1819, 1821- > 1822, 1830-31. > > There was a potato failure in 1879 and another > famine. > > To address the land issue and evictions Michael > Davitt started the Land > League which Charles Stewart Parnell was the first > president. There were > also a lot of evictions during this time period. > County Mayo and Sligo were > the hardest hit. There is a good article which > explains about the lead up > to the 1879 famine as well as the evictions. > > http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/after.htm > article by Philip Gavin > > Liam Swords wrote an excellent book - The Famine in > North Connacht > 1845-1849. There is an excellent series of four > books about the History of > County Mayo. The information is taken J.F. Quinn's > articles which appeared > in the Western People. I purchased a book about the > Famine in the Swinford > area. > > Beannachtai, > Margaret (Máiread) > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-MAYO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >