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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers
Prof. Christine Kinealy
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Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFFC1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book ... Read more
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441146489
SKU
9781441146489
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About Prof. Christine Kinealy
Christine Kinealy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she earned her doctorate. She is Professor of Irish Studies in the Caspersen Graduate School at Drew University, USA, and, in the spring of 2012, was Visiting Scholar in Residence at Quinnipiac University, USA. She is the author of several books on the Irish Famine, including the award-winning This ... Read more
Reviews for Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers
Kinealy (Irish studies, Drew Univ.) has published extensively on the famine and contributes here the most comprehensive work on private charity to date.In this well-researched study, Kinealy properly credits the contributions of the Quakers in offering much immediate aid and bearing witness to the tragedy and also brings to light the roles of the leading aid organization (the British Relief ... Read more