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In their own words : the famine in North Connacht, 1845-1849 / [compiled by] Liam Swords.
- Title
- In their own words : the famine in North Connacht, 1845-1849 / [compiled by] Liam Swords.
- Publication
- Blackrock, Co. Dublin : Columba Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DA950.7 .I5 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Swords, Liam
- Description
- 508 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- This book is about the famine as told in diary form. It chronicles the unfolding calamity through the eyes of those at the coalface, some of the victims, many others heroically striving to alleviate the plight of their starving fellowman. With most of the material never before published, this book makes a major contribution to a better understanding of the Famine. -- Publisher description
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-490) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Winter 1845-46 : The blight -- Summer 1846: Public works -- Autumn 1846: Total failure -- WInter 1846-47: Deaths from starvation -- Spring 1847: Quakers and soup kitchens -- Summer 1847: Emigration and piracy -- Autumn 1847: Partial failure and 'souperism' -- Winter 1847-48: More relief and the British Association -- Spring 1848: Evictions, rate defaulters and inquests -- Summer 1848: Cropping the land -- Autumn 1848; Total failure again and female orphan emigrants -- Winter 1848-49: The war of the rates -- Spring 1849: Increase in mortality and cholera -- Summer 1849: Smallholders and evictions -- Autumn and winter 1849: The end of the blight and the growth of emigration.
- ISBN
- 1856072479
- LCCN
- ^^^99197059^
- OCLC
- 42072351
- SCSB-12162663
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library