The Great Famine of 1845-9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history. This title contains the first volume in a set of five of reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "Dublin Journal of Medical Science" and similar publications.

Margaret E Crawford, Leslie Clarkson

Volume I General Introduction, William Robert Wills Wilde, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, part V: Tables of Deaths (1856).