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Author : Cecil Woodham-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1070053187
Author : Cecil Woodham Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Famines
ISBN : OCLC:1280798710
Examines the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations.
Author : David A. Valone
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761849001
The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.
Author : Christine Kinealy,Jason King,Gerard Moran
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Children
ISBN : 0990468690
This publication explores the impact of the Famine on children and young adults. It examines the topic through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, history, visual representations, folklore and folk-memory.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1859840272
This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the question of language, and a full-scale investigation of the Celtic revival.
Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0745310745
Examines the historiography of the Irish Famine and its relevance now, in the context of the longer-term relationship between England and Ireland.
Author : Cormac Ó'Gráda,Economic History Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557879
A concise analysis of one of the great disasters of Irish history.
Author : Patrick Kavanagh
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241339340
Tragic and comic, irascible and exalted poems
Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137045171
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.
Author : Jerry Mulvihill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Famines
ISBN : 095743474X
Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441133083
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Author : Christine Kinealy,Jason Francis King,Ciarán Reilly
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0990945421
Even considering recent advances in the development of women's studies as a discipline, women remain underrepresented in the history and historiography of the Great Hunger. The various roles played by women, including as landowners, relief-givers, philanthropists, proselytizers and providers for the family, have received little attention.This publication examines the diverse and still largely unexplored role of women during the Great Hunger, shedding light on how women experienced and shaped the tragedy that unfolded in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. In addition to more traditional sources, the contributors also draw on folklore and popular culture.Women and the Great Hunger brings together the work of some of the leading researchers in Irish studies, with new scholarship, methodologies and perspectives.This book takes a major step toward advancing our understanding of the Great Hunger.
Author : Johan Bojer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066223342
This story examines Peer's yearning for knowledge. In this novel, Peer is shoved around from foster home to foster home. Interestingly, Peer exemplifies immense tenacity in conquering his social and economic circumstances. An encounter with his birth father, a man of highly regarded military rank and wealth, brings hope by agreeing to provide sufficient funds regularly to ensure Peer's social advancement. However, following his father's unexpected death, the estate's legal heirs severed all financial ties to him. He decides to commit himself to the goal of education, despite the pitifully small funds available to him through his labor, and even invites his impoverished half-sister, Louise, to live with him in his home, which is little more than a hovel. Will Peer achieve his goal?
Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805095630
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times. It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century--it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and TheGraves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.