Leningrad
Limerick Chronicle
Lindemann, Frederick (Viscount Cherwell)
Lindley, Dr John
Linlithgow, Marquess of
Lissadell
Live Aid
Liverpool
Liverpool, Lord
Llewellin, John J.
Lloyd, Reverend John
Loharjang
London Companies
London Weekend Television
Lord Ashburton
Louth
Lucan, Earl of
Luce, Clare Boothe
Lvov, Prince
Macaulay, Thomas
McDermott, Reverend Michael
Macedonian
Mackenzie King, William
McMahon, Reverend Michael
Mahon, John Ross
Mahon, Major Denis
Makale
malaria
Malawi
Malthus, Reverend Thomas
Essay on the Principles of Population
Principles of Political Economy
Manchester
marasmus
Marquess of Linlithgow see Linlithgow, Marquess of
Martini, Ferdinando
Marwari Relief Committee
Massawa
Matthew, Father
Mauritania
Mayo Telegraph
Meagher, Thomas Francis
Menelik II, Emperor
Menen, Empress
Mengistu, Haile Mariam
Midnapore
migrations see emigration and famines
military conflict
Mill, John Stuart
Millardet, Alexis
Mitchel, John
Mondale, Walter
Monteagle, Lady Theodosia
Monteagle, Lord
Moore, George Henry
Moore, Hannah
Mother Teresa
Mozambique
Muehl, John
Mugabe, Robert
Munster
Muslim faith
Muslim League
Nafka front
Nagle, Reverend Edward
Nagumo, Admiral
Naomi
Napoleonic Wars
Narayan, T.G.
Nation, The
Nazimuddin, Khawaja
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Netherlands, the Hunger Winter
New Brunswick
New Republic
New York Herald
New York Times
Nicolson, Harold
Nigeria
Noah, Yannick
North Korean famine
O’Brien, Captain Henry
O’Brien, Sir Lucius
O’Connell, Daniel
O’Donnell, Bridget
O’Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah
Ogaden
Ó’Gráda, Cormac
O’Hagan, John
Ojukwu, Colonel Emeka
O’Malley, Sir Samuel
O’Neill, Dr John
Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
Orissa
Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)
Palmerston, Lord
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Parganas
Pasteur, Louis
Patel, Sardar Vallabhbhai
Pateman, Roy
Pearl Harbor
Peck, Deborah
Peel, Sir Robert
scepticism
Peel’s brimstone
pellagra
Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick
Petty, Sir William
phytophthora infestans
Pim, Jonathan
plant pestilence
army worms
potato blight
rice blast
Playfair, Dr Lyon
Plumpy-nut
pneumonia
political economic theories
Pope Pius IX
potatoes
blight
diseases
varieties
poverty
prostitution
selling children into
Protestant Colonisation Society
Punjab region
Quaker Relief Committee
Quakers, the
Quebec
Queen Victoria
Queen’s County
rainfall
belg
kremt/meher
Raison, Timothy
Rangoon
Ras Tafari
Rathbone, William
Reagan, Ronald
Redington, Thomas
Reform Bill
Reform Club, London
relief
Bengal
cooperation with tyrannous regimes
Ethiopia
Ireland
Russian famine
Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) (Ethiopia)
Relief Society of Tigray (REST)
religious beliefs
relish cakes
Repeal Party
resettlement policy (Ethiopia)
Ribbon Societies
rice
Rice, Thomas Spring see Monteagle, Lord
Ricketts, Howard Taylor
rickettsia
Rommel, General
Roosevelt, President
Rotary
Routh, Sir Randolph
Russell, Lord John
Russian famines
All-Russian Public Committee
Rutherford, Sir Thomas
Sabha, Kisan
Salmonella typhi
Sands, Bobby
Santhanam, K.
The Cry of Distress
Saturday Evening Post
scalpeens
scalps
Scrope, Sir George Poulet
scurvy
Seeds of Despair
Selassie, Emperor Haile see Emperor
Haile Selassie
Sen, Amartya
Development as Freedom
Sen, Ela
Darkening Days
Shanagolden
She’eb massacre
Sheridan family
Shiga, Kiyoshi
Shigella
Showa
Sidamo
Singapore
Skibbereen
Sligo
Sligo, Marquess of
smallpox
Smith, Adam
Smith O’Brien, William
Society for the Irish Church Mission
Society of Friends
American Friends Service Committee
Quaker Relief Committee
Somalia
Soup Kitchen Act
Soyer, Alexis
Stalinism
Stanislavsky, Constantin
starvation
amenorrhoea
deaths from
effects on body and mind see also diseases
hunger and
individual cases
kwashiorkor
political cases
psychiatric effects
relief
starvation dysentery
Statesman, The (Calcutta)
Stephens, Ian
Stirabout Rebellion
Strokestown
Strzelecki, Count Paul
Sudan
Darfur famine
erosion of clans/townships
famine, effects of
Sudanese People’s Liberation Army
Sudanese Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SRRA)
Suhrawardy, Huseyn Shaheed
Supreme Council of India
Tammany Hall
Tebhaga elaka
Tebhaga movement
Tefera, Melaku
teff
Temple, Henry John see Palmerston, Lord Temporary Relief Act
theft
Tigray
Relief Society of Tigray (REST)
Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)
Time magazine
Times of India
Tipperary
&n
bsp; Todhunter, William
Tolstoy, Alexandra
Trehy, Patrick
Trevelyan, Charles Edward –
impact of Malthusian theory
views on Irish people
Trible, Paul
tsetse fly
Turner, John
turnip boxty
typhoid fever
typhus
Ulster
UN Economic Commission for Africa
UN General Assembly
UNICEF
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation (UNRRA)
United States
aid to Ethiopia
aid to Ireland
American Friends Service Committee
Emergency Committee for Indian Famine Relief
Irish Relief Committees
Joint Distribution Committee
USAID
Unknown Famine, The
Ure, Midge
USA for Africa
Vail, James G.
Van Diemen’s Land
Vibrio cholera
Vindicator, The
Virginius
Wallace, Vice-president Henry
Walston, Oliver
Waterford
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald
Other Men’s Flowers
Westmeath, Marquess of
Westmoreland Lock Hospital
whistleblowers
Widow McCormack
Wilberforce, William
Wilde, Oscar
Wilde, William
Wollega province
Wollo
Woman Begging at Clonakilty
women and famine
Wood, Charles
Workers’ Party
workhouses
World Food Program
World Health Organization
World War I
World War II
xerophthalmia
Yeats, William Butler
Youghal
Young Ireland
Zemecha
Zenawi, Meles
Zimbabwe
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