The story of how this book came to be compiled is, for me, the book's editor, necessarily
personal; it involves many people (some of whom I will name, some of whom I won't), and …

Sieges and threatening the besieged population with starvation are methods of warfare as
old as civilisation. While sieges are not explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian …

Ireland is a nation on a value system that equates' being good'with'being there for each
other'. As a society we favour'minding our own'over'doing what we're told'. So far, so Irish. It's …

Discovery background, lead optimization pathways, synthesis and structure–activity
relationships of three different research projects searching for new active ingredients against …

Ireland's Great Famine produced Europe's worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century.
More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most …

The name of Sir William Gregory features in most modern accounts of Ireland in the
nineteenth century. It is fair to say, however, that usually he is regarded as a 'villain'. Gregory …

Dr John Singleton was a prominent doctor and philanthropist in Melbourne 1851-91. He had
lived and worked in the poorest parts of Dublin from 1832 to 1850, including during the …

Hunger and Postcolonial Writing explores contemporary postcolonial fiction and life-writing
from various geo-political contexts. The focus of this work is hunger; individuated in the self …

Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the
unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of …

This chapter focuses on four related aspects of the financial crisis. It maps a series of sharp
changes in how the collective memory of colonialism was referenced in public debates …