Examines the role that racial attitudes played in the perpetuation of the Irish potato famine. Includes quotes form original source documents.

Extensive resources from an Irish-American. Read a history of the famine, follow stories, review songs, check commemorations, and find contacts.

Extensive archive collection includes personal accounts, historical analysis, and a discussion forum. Includes a chronological narrative.

Collection of accounts of Irish witnesses of the Great Hunger. Read famine diaries, study various newspaper articles from the period.

Association preserves the Canadian port town's mass graves and refugee shelters. Study the background, find contacts, and check event schedules.

Download the Great Famine curriculum used to teach Nebraska students about the 1848 tragedy. Sponsored by the Irish Famine Curriculum Committee.

Rootsworld provides print and online Great Famine reference material. Browse a list of books, music, films, and relief organizations.

Investigates how English legislative actions such as the Coercion Bill exacerbated the already desperate shortages.

Western Ireland suffered greatly during the Great Hunger. Read an article explaining the events, characters, and results in the County.

Study guide offers includes topics such as the role of racism and the effect of penal laws and statutes on the crisis. Includes mortality rates.

Essay examines how Britain's misplaced faith in the free market led to lethal inaction during the critical part of the crisis.

Essay from an Irish Anarchist group examines how the actions of greedy landowners exacerbated the food shortages.