The graves are walking [sound recording] / John Kelly.

Title:

ISBN:

9781452607870

Personal Author:

Kelly, John, 1945-

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

[Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, [2012]

℗2012

Physical Description:

12 sound discs (approximately 14.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Duration: 14:30:00.

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.

Geographic Term:

Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852

Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century

Subject Term:

Irish -- Migrations -- History 19th century

Famines--Ireland -- History 19th century

Genre:

Audiobooks

Added Author:

Doyle, Gerard

Performer:

Read by Gerard Doyle.