James S. Donnelly Jr. (born 1943) is emeritus professor of history at the

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, where he specialised in nineteenth-century Irish history. He is a leading figure in the field of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and a current co-editor of the journal '' Éire-Ireland''. His research on

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(1845–51) made him a well-known historian in the debate on whether

The Great Hunger The Great Famine ( ga, an Gorta Mór ), also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a ...

was genocide or not. He has cooperated with Dr. Andy Bielenberg of

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in compiling a digital profile of casualties in Cork during the Irish War of Independence.

Publications

*''Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824''. (2009). *''Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture''. (2004), editor. *''The Great Irish Potato Famine''. (2001). *''Irish Popular Culture 1650-1850''. (1999), co-edited with Kerby A. Miller. *''Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780-1914''. (1983), co-edited with Samuel Clark. *''The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and Land Question.'' 1975 (which was awarded the

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of the

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) *''Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.'' (1973).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donnelly, James S. 1943 births Living people Historians of Ireland American historians