Irish droughts in newspaper archives: rediscovering forgotten hazards?. (6th June 2017)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Irish droughts in newspaper archives: rediscovering forgotten hazards?. (6th June 2017)
- Main Title:
- Irish droughts in newspaper archives: rediscovering forgotten hazards?
- Authors:
- Murphy, Conor
Noone, Simon
Duffy, Catriona
Broderick, Ciaran
Matthews, Tom
Wilby, Robert L. - Abstract:
- Abstract : Irish newspaper collections are a rich source of information on historical droughts. Following a search of 250 years of such archives, this paper brings to light four newspaper articles describing three drought events that convey the cultural impacts and unusual societal responses to drought in nineteenth century Ireland. Amongst the archives we find two poems from 1806 and 1893, a call to pray for rain in 1887, and a suggestion for weather modification in 1893. These records demonstrate that, contrary to recent experience, Ireland is surprisingly prone to drought.
- Is Part Of:
- Weather. Volume 72:Number 6(2017)
- Journal:
- Weather
- Issue:
- Volume 72:Number 6(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 72, Issue 6 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 72
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0072-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 151
- Page End:
- 155
- Publication Date:
- 2017-06-06
- Subjects:
- Meteorology -- Periodicals
Weather -- Great Britain -- Periodicals
551.1 - Journal URLs:
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/113388511/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 ↗
http://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-8696/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/wea.2904 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0043-1656
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