The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.
Title:
The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.
ISBN:
9780805091847
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Physical Description:
397 pages
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn740628637
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