Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy

Honorable Mention, 2025 ACIS James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences

Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas

Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response, people around the world and from myriad social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds became involved in Irish famine relief. They included enslaved Black people in Virginia, poor tenant farmers in ru...