Ciarán Ó Murchadha: The Great Famine

Cover: 9781472507785 | The Great Famine | Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 | Ciarán Ó Murchadha

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Beschreibung

The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony examines this enormous human calamity anew. Beginning with the coming of the potato blight in 1845 and the resulting harvest failures that left the country's impoverished population numb with shock as well as foodless, it explores government relief measures that so often failed to meet the needs of the poor, leading in fact to many more [...] book charts the horrific realities of Ireland's pauper-crammed workhouses, the mass clearances of the later Famine period and the great waves of panic-driven emigration that in a few short years combined to empty the country of its once teeming population.

Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official reports, newspapers and private diaries, the focus of the book rests on the experiences of those who suffered and died during the Famine, and on those who suffered and survived.

This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand Europe's greatest nineteenth century population disaster and its long term consequences.

Über den Autor

Ciarán Ó Murchadha is an independent scholar and leading historian of Ireland's Great Famine. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 (2011).

Zusammenfassung

Makes use of exhaustive research and numerous primary source materials

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
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 Last Years of the Famine
9. The Murdered Sleeping Silently: Aftermath
Source Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472507785
ISBN-10:	1472507789
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ó Murchadha, Ciarán
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.05.2013
Gewicht:	0,421 kg