世界史上有数の大災厄の経験を伝える包括的な史料集成。アイルランド大飢饉の研究と記憶の世界的な拠点であるアイルランド大飢饉研究所（米クイニピアック大学）所長Christine Kinealyら編にて、同時代の人々がものした多種多数の文書を精選収録。By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled - Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia.