Title:
The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.
Author:
Kelly, John, 1945-
Genre:
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Call Number:
DA950.7 .K45 2012
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Sample text http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1305/2012011493-s.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1305/2012011493-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1305/2012011493-d.html
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780805091847
9780809091847
9780809091843
Physical Description:
xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.
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