• Society: Issues: Poverty: Hunger: Famine Studies  (8)

• Click2Disasters - The Great Hunger - Offers detailed history of the Irish Potato Famine, from potato blight to mass exodus, with links to primary sources.
• Famine In Ireland - Text by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.
• The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - Six chapters covering all aspects of the 1845 potato crop failure. Includes an overview, a look at the effects, so called 'coffin ships' and subsequent emigration. Provides illustrations.
• Ireland: The Great Famine - Includes information includes a map of Ireland, science of the potato blight and emigration.
• The Irish Famine: 1845-9 - Explanation of the blight that destroyed the potatoe crop, leading to a widespread famine.
• Letter to Lord Russell - An etext of an 1847 book concerning the crisis of famine in Ireland.
• Lord Lucan and the Irish Potato Famine - Fifteen-page transcription from "The Reason Why" published by McGraw-Hill in 1953.

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