Author: Cecil Woodham-SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
THE GREAT HUNGER. IRELAND 1845-9. BY CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH.
Author: Cecil Woodham-SmithThe Great Hunger
Author: Cecil Woodham SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Examines the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations.
Ireland's Great Hunger
Author: David A. ValonePublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761849009
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.
A Death-Dealing Famine
Author: Christine KinealyPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745310749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.
The Famine Plot
Author: Tim Pat CooganPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137045175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
The Truth Behind the Irish Famine 1845-1852
Author: Jerry MulvihillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957434745
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Great Irish Famine
Author: Cormac Ó'GrádaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521557870
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A concise analysis of one of the great disasters of Irish history.
The Great Famine
Author: John PercivalPublisher: TV Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Discusses the potato famine that struck Ireland in 1845, resulting in the starvation deaths of over a million Irish citizens, the displacement of thousands, and the immigration of over one million to America and Australia.
The Great Hunger
Author: Patrick KavanaghPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241339343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tragic and comic, irascible and exalted poems
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America
Author: Arthur GribbenPublisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is also known, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine. In the Irish language it is called an Gorta Mór (IPA: [n t mo?], meaning "the Great Hunger") or an Drochshaol ([n dxhi?l], meaning "the bad life"). During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%."--Wikipedia.