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Author:

Kelly, John, 1945- author.

Title:

The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Publisher:

Picador,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subject:

Famines--Ireland--History--19th century.
Irish--History--History--19th century.
Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
Ireland--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Originally published: Henry Holt, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

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.

ISBN:

1250032172
9781250032171 (softcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809411723

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)