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Apparitions of death and disease : the great hunger in Ireland
- Title
- Apparitions of death and disease : the great hunger in Ireland / Christine Kinealy.
- Author
- Kinealy, Christine.
- Publication
- Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
- Description
- 39 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 28 cm
- Series Statement
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Alternative Title
- Great hunger in Ireland
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- This essay provides an overview of the devastating period in Irish history that is simply remembered as the 'Great Hunger'. Christine Kinealy provides a chronology of the Famine, examines the causes and consequences of this tragedy, and asks how could a famine of this magnitude occur at the center of the British Empire? Why did Ireland starve?--back cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Ireland before 1845 -- The onset of the great hunger -- Blight returns -- Black '47 -- The changing face of famine -- Black '49 -- The famine killed everything -- Chronology of the great hunger.
- Call Number
- JAX B-24393
- ISBN
- 9780990468615
- 0990468615
- LCCN
- 2014472827
- OCLC
- 897276104
- Author
- Kinealy, Christine.
- Title
- Apparitions of death and disease : the great hunger in Ireland / Christine Kinealy.
- Imprint
- Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, c2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum / Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).
- Chronological Term
- 1800 - 1899
- Added Author
- Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
- Research Call Number
- JAX B-24393