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Book Review: A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

connections between psychological and physical health (p.12 and passim), but their remit did not permit them to explore these in qualitative detail. Related problems, such as that of 'loneliness' (pp.95ff.), are probably connected not simply with quantities of human contact but with opportunities for meaningful public and private roles, social power, and individuals' abilities to contribute to relationships; issues such as this can only be explored by sensitive, context-responsive methods. It may be that many older people now find themselves in the situation occupied by women a number of decades ago: there is no publicly accepted language in which they feel able to formulate and express social frustration. In this situation, the language of bad health comes to play a pivotal role both for respondents and researchers; at least it is one which everyone is able to use. Perhaps, though, this language is being employed to carry more complex statements than questionnaire research can elucidate. The Council might profitably extend its sponsorship of qualitative studies, as well as developing the practical project of helping to evolve a public language in which older people can voice needs and views. The multi-layered issue of empowering older people in society, an aim which this volume endorses, needs even further creative and inventive exploration.