1. Famine and government response, 1845-6.
2. Production, prices, and exports, 1846-51.
3. The administration of 'relief', 1846-7.
4. Soup kitchens and amending the poor law.
5. The amended poor law and mass death, 1847-51.
6. Landlords and tenants.
7. Excess mortality and emigration.
8. A famine in Irish politics.
9. Constructing the memory of the famine, 1850-1900.