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

Kelly, John, 1945-

The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people Great famine and the saga of the Irish people - 1st ed. - New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012. - xii, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

9780805091847 080509184X

2012011493

016098884 Uk


Irish--Migrations--History--19th century.
Famines--History--Ireland--19th century.


Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

DA950.7 / .K45 2012

941.5081