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

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...

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Main Author: Kelly, John, 1945-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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300 |a 397 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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