The graves are walking, the great famine and the saga of the Irish people, John Kelly
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The graves are walking, the great famine and the saga of the Irish people, John Kelly
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The graves are walking
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
740628637
Responsibility statement
John Kelly
Sub title
the great famine and the saga of the Irish people
Summary
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 society and character
Table of contents
The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland -- News from Ireland -- "The Irish can live on anything" -- Want -- The hanging of Bryan Serry -- Lord of providence -- Great and glorious cause of Ireland -- Mandate of heaven -- Sermon for Ireland -- Snow -- Queen's speech -- Pestilence -- Atonement -- "I shall arise and go now" -- Yankee doodle dandy -- Catastrophe and its consolations
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Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
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