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The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA950.7 .K45 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, John, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
- Ireland.
- Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- Irish--Migrations--History--19th century.
- Irish.
- Famines--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Famines.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Irish--Migrations.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- History
- Physical Description:
- xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
- Summary:
- This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
- Contents:
- The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland
- The news from Ireland
- "The Irish can live on anything"
- Want
- The hanging of Bryan Serry
- The lord of providence
- The great and glorious cause of Ireland
- The mandate of heaven
- A sermon for Ireland
- Snow
- The queen's speech
- Pestilence
- Atonement
- "I shall arise and go now"
- Yankee doodle dandy
- Catastrophe and its consolations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-376) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Nora Barry.
- ISBN:
- 9780805091847
- 080509184X
- 9780809091847
- 0809091844
- 9780809091843
- 9781250032171
- 1250032172
- OCLC:
- 740628637
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