TY - BOOK AU - Edward G Lengel AU - Edward G Lengel TI - The Irish through British eyes: : perceptions of Ireland in the Famine era SN - 9780275976347 U1 - 941.5081 LEN PY - 2002/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - : Praeger KW - History KW - International relations KW - Ireland -- Foreign public opinion, British -- History -- 19th century N1 - 1. Race, Gender, Class and the Historiography of English Perceptions of the Irish -- 2. Public Perceptions of the Irish Question, 1840-1845 -- 3. Official Britain and the Condition of the Ireland Question, 1841-1852 -- 4. The Famine and English Public Opinion, 1845-1850 -- 5. Aftermath of Disaster: Public Perceptions of the Irish Question, 1850-1860 N2 - This study describes the change in 19th-century British perceptions of relations with Ireland from a gendered rhetoric of marriage to one of master and servant. It demonstrates that these changes came as a result of the potato famine of 1846 to 1852 ER -