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The great shame : a story of the Irish in the Old World and the new / Thomas Keneally.

Title
The great shame : a story of the Irish in the Old World and the new / Thomas Keneally.
Author
Keneally, Thomas
Publication
London : Chatto & Windus, 1998.

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Description
xii, 731 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This text traces the three causes of this depletion: firstly, the famine; secondly the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada; and thirdly the transportations of political activists to Australia.
Subject
  • Famines > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Prisoners > History > 19th century
  • Prisoners > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Irish > Australia > History > 19th century
  • Irish > United States > History > 19th century
  • Political prisoners > Ireland > History > 19th century
  • Political prisoners > Australia > History > 19th century
  • Irish > History > 19th century
  • Ireland > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Book 1. Hugh Larkin's Ireland -- The shipping of Ireland, and the exile of chains -- Assigning Ireland -- The limits of location -- Ireland and the Whitby women -- The lass from the female factory -- Ireland young and old -- A fond farewell to the white potatoes -- A thousand farewells to you, Island of St. Patrick -- Fiasco and noble gesture: the rebellion of young Ireland -- Young Ireland on trial -- Shipping Young Ireland -- By order of Great Denison -- Young Ireland and the profane colonists -- Locked within the pyramid -- The skeleton at the feast -- Book 2. Young Ireland and the isms of Yankeedom -- Ireland and the bloody arena -- Faugh-a-ballagh -- The Chickahominy steeplechase -- Woefully cut up -- Let me have Idaho -- Glorio, glorio, to the bold Fenian men -- Re-making Montana; violating Canada -- Fenians transported -- The Fenians of the Desert Coast -- Fenians at large -- Home rule and dynamite -- The Fenian whaler -- Perth regatta day -- Republican Christ.
ISBN
1856197883
OCLC
40728467
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library