The great famine : Ireland's agony, 1845-1852 / / Ciarán Ó Murchadha

• Autore: Ó Murchadha Ciarán
• Pubblicazione: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.5081 22
• Soggetto topico: Famines - History; Potatoes - History
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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: Aftermath ; Source NotesNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The great famine
• ISBN: 1-283-12265-0; 9786613122650; 1-4411-3977-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461318303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II