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The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780805091847
  • 080509184X
Other title:
  • Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.5081 23
LOC classification:
  • DA950.7 .K45 2012
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.
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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 941.508 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000439839

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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