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THE GREAT HUNGER IRELAND 1845 9 BY CECIL WOODHAM SMITH
Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1070053187 |
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The Great Hunger
Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publsiher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1992-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014014515X |
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The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.
The great hunger Ireland 1845 9
Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0450051676 |
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The Great Hunger
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:866449173 |
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The Famine Plot
Author | : Tim Pat Coogan |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137045171 |
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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.
This Great Calamity The Great Irish Famine
Author | : Christime Kinealy |
Publsiher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780717155552 |
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The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
The Great Famine
Author | : Ciarán Ó Murchadha |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441139771 |
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Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.
Paddy s Lament Ireland 1846 1847
Author | : Thomas Gallagher |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0156707004 |
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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.