The great famine : Ireland's agony, 1845-1852 /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2011.
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Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. An emerging people: the pre-famine Irish
- 2. A long farewell to the white potatoes: the coming of the blight
- 3. One wide waste of putrefying vegetation: the second failure of the potato
- 4. The blessed effects of political economy: public works and soup kitchens
- 5. Emaciated frames and livid countenances: from fever pandemic to amended Poor Law
- 6. Asylum by the neighbouring ditches: the famine clearances
- 7. Leaving this land of plagues: the famine emigrations
- 8. Exiled from humanity: the later years of the famine
- 9. The murdered sleeping silently: aftermath.