The Graves are Walking : : the Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
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The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland -- The news from Ireland -- "The Irish can live on anything" -- Want -- The hanging of Bryan Serry -- The lord of providence -- The great and glorious cause of Ireland -- The mandate of heaven -- A sermon for Ireland -- Snow -- The queen's speech -- Pestilence -- Atonement -- "I shall arise and go now" -- Yankee doodle dandy -- Catastrophe and its consolations.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xii, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780805091847
080509184X
SUBJECTS
Irish -- History -- 19th century.
Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland -- History -- 19th century.