Apparitions of death and disease : the Great Hunger in Ireland /

Apparitions of death and disease : the Great Hunger in Ireland /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kinealy, Christine, author.
Imprint:	Hamden, CT: Quinnipiac University Press, [2014]
Description:	39 p. : illustrations (chiefly color), map, facsimilies ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Famine folio series.
Subject:	Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Famines -- Ireland. Famines. Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Ireland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10308044

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Varying Form of Title:	Great hunger in Ireland
Other authors / contributors:	Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.
ISBN:	9780990468615 0990468615
Notes:	"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. Series editors: Niamh O'Sullivan, Grace Brady. Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).

Table of 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
Endnotes
Works Cited
Images
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