Three Famines (27 page)

famine

prostitution

rebels

refugee numbers

relief

reports of

resettlement

resistance

safaratabia

sale of livestock

shelters, closing

triggers

villagisation

war crime, as

whistleblowers

wild foods

Ethiopian Red Cross

evictions

Falkiner, Sir Riggs

famine

amenorrhoea

cultural habits

definition

diseases

effect on children born during

gender inequity

government intervention

inaccessibility

Malthusian theory

over-population and

rate of conception

religion and

test of faith

triggers

famine foods

famine sufferers –

coping mechanisms

diseases

family survival

famine trees

Fermoy Union

Fida, Haile

‘Fields of Athenry’, The

fish

Fitch, Lieutenant Colonel K.S.

Fitzgerald, James

floods

Food for Peace

foodstuffs and nutrition

Forbes, Captain

Frawley, Michael

Freeman’s Journal

Friends’ Ambulance Unit

Galway

Gambella National Park

Gambella People’s Liberation Movement

Gambella resettlement camp

Gandhi, Mahatma

gastro-enteric symptoms

Geldof, Bob

Gerrard, Mrs

Ghebremarian, Wolde Selassie

Ghose, Kali

Giorgis, Asmil

Giorgis, Dawit Wolde

Girma, Bealu

Oramai

Glasgow

Global Acute Malnutrition index

Gojjam

Gondar

Gore-Booth, Sir Robert and Lady

Gorky, Maxim

Government of India Act

Grady, Henry F.

Great Leap Forward

Gregory, William

Greville, Charles

Grey, Sir George

Grosse Ile

Guinness, Arthur

Guraferda

Halifax, Lord

Hamer Koko

Harar

Harvey, Jacob

Hasty, Patrick

Healy, Gerard

The Black Stranger

Herbert, Sir Jack

Heytesbury, Lord Lieutenant

Hindu faith

deities

Hindu Mahasabha

Hindustan Times

Hoare, Mary Anne

Hoover, President Herbert

Hope, Victor Alexander John
see
Linlithgow, Marquess of

Hopetoun, Lord

Human Rights Watch

Humera

hunger

edema

hunger strikes

Huq, Fazlul

Illustrated London News

India

all-India Food Conference Basic Plan

British occupation

constitution

democracy, as

political parties

population size

provincial elections

Quit India program

World War II, effect

India League of America

Indian Independence League

Indian National Congress Party

Indian Relief Fund

Indonesia

inequity

Ingram, Henry

International Committee of the Red Cross

Ireland

absentee landlords

British perceptions of

fishing

food shortages

gombeen
men

land-holding

landlords

marriage

nationalism

19th century political system

Poor Law Commission

potatoes

tithes

transportation to Australia

Irish Board of Works

Irish famine
see an Gorta Mór

Irish Famine Museum

Irish Folklore Commission

Irish nationalism

Irish Party

Irish Poor Relief Act

ITV

Jakowski, Johann von

Jamestown

Janjaweed Arab militias

Jansson, Kurt

Jinnah, Mohammad Ali

Johannes IV, Emperor

John Munn

Jones, Colonel Harry

Joshua, Emperor

Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

Kafa province

Kapu ci ski, Ryszard

kebeles

Kefu Qän
(the Evil Days)

Kennedy, Senator Ted

Khartoum

khichri

Kildare

Kilkenny

Kilrush

Kim Jong II

Kincaid, Joseph

Korem

kwashiorkor

Lansdowne, Lord

League of Nations

Leinster

Leitrim

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

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