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The Great Irish Potato Famine
James S. Donnelly
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Description for The Great Irish Potato Famine
Paperback. In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. This account looks at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine. Num Pages: 320 pages, 100 b&w illustrations, 23 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFFC1; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 792.
This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.
This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750929288
SKU
V9780750929288
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99-10
About James S. Donnelly
James S. Donnelly, Jr, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he is the author of The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork, which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association). He is a coeditor of the journal Eire-Ireland.
Reviews for The Great Irish Potato Famine
'This is unquestionably the most comprehensive single account of the Irish catastrophe...' Professor Peter Gray, Queen's University, Belfast ' ... many historians have written excellent books about the great Irish famine ... Donnelly's is the best and most comprehensive of them all.' Kerby Miller, Middlebush Professor of History, University of Missouri, Columbia 'James Donnelly's ... Read more