June 23, 2024

Episode 2: Ottoman Response to the Irish Famine 1845 to 1852

55 minutes

The story of Ottoman help during the Irish Famine (1845-1852).

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Recommended further reading...

The Crimean War:

Figes, Orlando, Crimea, The Last Crusade, (London, 2010).

Huddie, Paul, The Crimean War and Irish Society, (Liverpool, 2015).

The Irish Famine:

Crowley, John, Murphy, Mike, Smyth, William J. (eds.), Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52, (Cork, 2012).

The Ottoman Empire's Response to the Irish Famine:

Bunbury, Turtle, 1847, A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery, (Dublin, 2016).

Çelik, Semih, ’Between History of Humanitarianism and Humanitarianization of History: A Discussion on Ottoman Help for the Victims of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1852’, Werkstatt Geschichte, Number 68, (2015), pp. 13-27.

Kinealy, Christine, Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland, The Kindness of Strangers, (London, New York, 2013).

Şiviloğlu, Murat R. 'The Ottoman Empire and the emergence of its ‘Irish Question’, Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 59, Issue 1, (2023), pp. 35-53.

The Tanzimat and Ottoman Westernisation:

Findley, Carter Vaughn, 'The Tanzimat', Kasaba, Reşat (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey (Volume 4), Turkey in the Modern World, (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 11-37.

Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, (Princeton, 2008).

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