The great shame : and the triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking world / Thomas Keneally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keneally, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish.

History.

Civilization.

Ireland--Civilization--19th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Emigration and immigration.

Irish--English-speaking countries--History--19th century.

Irish--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Civilization, Modern--Irish influences.

Civilization, Modern.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xiii, 712 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition in the U.S.A.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nan A. Talese, 1999.

Summary:

In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. The forebears of Thomas Keneally, were victims of that tragedy, and in The Great Shame Keneally has written an astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish diaspora with the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners--including Keneally's ancestors--who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, in Australia and America.

Contents:

1 Hugh Larkin's Ireland 3

2 The Shipping of Ireland, and The Exile of Chains 25

3 Assigning Ireland 36

4 The Limits of Location 53

5 Ireland and the Whitby Women 59

6 The Lass from the Female Factory 67

7 Ireland Young and Old 88

8 A Fond Farewell to the White Potatoes 102

9 A Thousand Farewells to You, Island of St Patrick 123

10 Fiasco and Noble Gesture: the Rebellion of Young Ireland 141

11 Young Ireland on Trial 167

12 Shipping Young Ireland 184

13 By Order of Great Denison 203

14 Young Ireland and the Profane Colonists 224

15 Locked Within the Pyramid 247

16 The Skeleton at the Feast 267

17 Young Ireland and the Isms of Yankeedom 293

18 Ireland and the Bloody Arena 316

19 Faugh-A-Ballagh 332

20 The Chickahominy Steeplechase 342

21 Woefully Cut up 355

22 Let Me Have Idaho 377

23 Glorio, Glorio, to the Bold Fenian Men 403

24 Re-Making Montana; Violating Canada 429

25 Fenians Transported 459

26 The Fenians of the Desert Coast 471

27 Fenians at Large 492

28 Home Rule and Dynamite 511

29 The Fenian Whaler 530

30 Perth Regatta Day 550

31 Republican Christ 572.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [667]-678) and index.

ISBN:

0385476973

OCLC:

40996165