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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