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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797528603321

Autore

Geber Jonny

Titolo

Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5147-9

0-8130-5563-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past : Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives

Disciplina

941.5081

Soggetti

Famines - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) - History - 19th century

Mass burials - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) - History - 19th century

Workhouses - Ireland - History - 19th century

Starvation - History - 19th century

Poor - Ireland - History - 19th century

Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured in poverty: a social bioarchaeology of the "deserving poor" -- Institutionalization as the last resort: famine diseases, mortality, and medical interventions -- The bioarchaeology of the human experience of famine and disaster: shedding new light on the -- Realities of the great Irish famine.

Sommario/riassunto

Geber uses the analysis of the remains from the mass burial ground within the former union workhouse in Kilkenny found in 2005 to address central questions regarding health conditions at the workhouse and to shed new light on the famine.