02910nam 2200601 450 991046131830332120170810191033.01-283-12265-097866131226501-4411-3977-X(CKB)2670000000093601(EBL)711075(OCoLC)727649580(SSID)ssj0000523003(PQKBManifestationID)11376283(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523003(PQKBWorkID)10539648(PQKB)10976516(MiAaPQ)EBC711075(MiAaPQ)EBC5309713(EXLCZ)99267000000009360120180316h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe great famine Ireland's agony, 1845-1852 /Ciarán Ó MurchadhaLondon, England ;New York, New York :Continuum,2011.©20111 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4725-0778-9 1-84725-217-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 An Emerging People: The Pre-Famine Irish; 2 A Long Farewell to the White Potatoes: The Coming of the Blight; 3 One Wide Waste of Putrefying Vegetation: The Second Failure of the Potato; 4 The Blessed Effects of Political Economy: Public Works and Soup Kitchens; 5 Emaciated Frames and Livid Countenances: From Fever Pandemic to Amended Poor Law; 6 Asylum by the Neighbouring Ditches: The Famine Clearances; 7 Leaving this Land of Plagues: The Famine Emigrations; 8 Exiled from Humanity: The Later Years of the Famine; 9 The Murdered Sleeping Silently: AftermathSource NotesNotes; Bibliography; IndexOver one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. F ar from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kiFaminesHistoryPotatoesHistoryIrelandHistoryElectronic books.FaminesHistory.PotatoesHistory.941.5081 22Ó Murchadha Ciarán872538MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461318303321The great famine1947833UNINA