LEADER 02877nam 2200589 450 001 9910816509403321 005 20230725031411.0 010 $a1-283-12265-0 010 $a9786613122650 010 $a1-4411-3977-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093601 035 $a(EBL)711075 035 $a(OCoLC)727649580 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376283 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539648 035 $a(PQKB)10976516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC711075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5309713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093601 100 $a20180316h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe great famine $eIreland's agony, 1845-1852 /$fCiara?n O? Murchadha 210 1$aLondon, England ;$aNew York, New York :$cContinuum,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-0778-9 311 $a1-84725-217-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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: Aftermath 327 $aSource NotesNotes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aOver 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 ki 606 $aFamines$xHistory 606 $aPotatoes$xHistory 607 $aIreland$xHistory 615 0$aFamines$xHistory. 615 0$aPotatoes$xHistory. 676 $a941.5081 22 700 $aO? Murchadha$b Ciara?n$01640469 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816509403321 996 $aThe great famine$93984028 997 $aUNINA