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[1] Robert Kee, The Laurel and the Ivy: The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism p.15.
[2] Joe Lee, The Modernisation of Irish Society p.1. Cormac Ó Grada suggests the higher number of one million.
[3] FSL Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine p.42.
[4] Lee, op.cit p.1.
[5] Lyons, op.cit p.43.
[6] ibid. p.43.
[7] James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria
[8] John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland
[9] Lee, op.cit. p.3.
[10] Of the 166 seats in Dáil Éireann and the 60 seats in Irish Senate (total: 226) Sinn Féin have 5, Republican Sinn Féin 0, Socialist Party 1, Socialist Workers Party 0, Communist Party of Ireland 0.

Cormac O'Grada, An Economic History of Ireland
Robert Kee, Ireland: A History (ISBN 0349106789)
Joseph Lee, The Modernisation of Irish Society (ISBN 0717105679) (Gill and Macmillan)
F.S.L. Lyons, Ireland Since the Famine (ISBN 0006860052)
John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland (1861) (out of print)
James H. Murphy, Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria (ISBN 1859183344) (Cork University Press, 2001)
Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger, 1845-49 (Penguin, 1991 edition)

For more on the pathogen see http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/mar2001.html
Republic of Ireland website (http://www.irlgov.ie)
Newspaper Reports on the Famine (http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Irish.html)
Irish National Archives information on the Famine (http://www.nationalarchives.ie/famine.html)
Local History Website on the Famine (http://www.local.ie/general/history/famine/)
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic History: Ireland's Great Famine (http://eh.net/encyclopedia/ograda.famine.php) (Cormac Ó Gráda)