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Voyage of mercy the USS Jamestown, the Irish famine, and the remarkable story of America's first humanitarian mission

"The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transpo...

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Main Author: Puleo, Stephen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2020]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Forbes, R. B. > (Robert Bennet), > 1804-1889.
Mathew, Theobald, > 1790-1856.
Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Food relief > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Food relief, American > Ireland.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Ireland.
Ireland > Foreign economic relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • "The distress is universal"
  • "Blest by God, and cursed by man"
  • "The year of decision"
  • "I was born to a higher purpose"
  • "Remember, dearest wife, the trouble and misery of that last year"
  • "The calamities of Ireland . . . have touched all American hearts"
  • "I beseech you-what you do, do quickly"
  • "Europe stretches her hand to America for aid"
  • "We can make the bounty national"
  • "The living envy the dead"
  • "Thousands have disappeared"
  • "The greater part of them are anxious to go"
  • "What hope is there for a nation which lives on potatoes?"
  • "Are you going to abandon us?"
  • "It is not an everyday matter to see a nation starving"
  • "Contributions . . . on a scale unparalleled in history"
  • "Thousands desirous to . . . greet the illustrious stranger"
  • "I saw enough in five minutes to horrify me"
  • "Not so much soup for the poor as poor soup"
  • "I became enlisted in behalf of this good cause"
  • "The food should be distributed as soon as possible"
  • "Young America opens a new page in its destiny"
  • "Our deliverer in the hour of bitter calamity"
  • "The happiest event of my life"
  • "Good came instead of evil"
  • "Cannot but sow seeds of hatred"
  • "The magnitude . . . of these supplies is really astonishing"
  • "An Irishman looks on America as the refuge of his race"
  • "My mission among you closes today"
  • "Haul up! Haul up!"
  • "The greatest social calamity . . . that Ireland has ever experienced"
  • "To their friends and kindred beyond the sea."

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