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Book

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

Call Number

  • 941.5 K2975 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

Physical Description

397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

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.

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