The Great Irish Potato Famine
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0750929286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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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). James S. Donnelly, Jr, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a coeditor of the journal Eire-Ireland.
of Wisconsin) has written an intelligent, thought-provoking, and well-written book that, among other things, is a very useful survey and synthesis of the current debates about and researches into the origins and causes of the famine. From Library Journal The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s, one of the major human catastrophes of modern times, has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government's actions and failures to act. This book would be an excellent choice to accompany and update The Great Hunger. Donnelly (Irish history, Univ. The chapter notes, indexing, and bibliography are of good quality
Customer said Excellent! My husband's ancestors came to America because of. Excellent! My husband's ancestors came to America because of the Potato Famine.. My great-grandparents died in. it, so I had My great-grandparents died in.it, so I had a lot to learn. Last month I went back and saw the workhouse where I think they died. Even today it is hard there if protestant, but back then it was hard if you were catholic as well.. Was it Famine or Genocide? Jerry Guild Although many have heard about the "Patato Famine" in Ireland in 1845-1847; they actually know and understand very little about what happened during those few years and more importantly the effects it had on Ireland right up till the end of the 19th Century. To understand what happened ,it is imperative that one understand the history of Ireland for at least 100 years before and know that Britain ruled totally all aspects of life in Ireland. All the laws,all the land ownership,all the imports and ex
This book combines narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary illustrations. This work aims to provide an insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.. This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine which resulted in the death of about one million people and was also largely responsible, in conjunction with British government policies, for one of the great international human migrations of British history—the mass exodus of some two million people from Ireland, mostly to North America, in the years 1845–1855