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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...

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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.
Subjects:
Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
Irish > Migrations > History > 19th century.
Ireland > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Table of 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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