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The famine plot : England's role in Ireland's greatest tragedy / Tim Pat Coogan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coogan, Tim Pat, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famines.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography.
- Ireland.
- Famines--Ireland--History--19th century--Historiography.
- Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- During a biblical seven years in the middle of the 19th century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland's best-known historian gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history.
- Contents:
- Setting the scene
- Born to filth
- A million deaths of no use
- Five actors and the orchards of hell
- Meal use
- Evictions
- The work schemes
- The workhouse
- Soup and souperism
- The Poor Law cometh
- Landlords targeted
- Emigration : escape by coffin ship
- The Propaganda of famine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230109520
- 0230109527
- OCLC:
- 794922793
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