The curse of reason : the great Irish famine /
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Author / Creator: | Delaney, Enda, 1971- |
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Imprint: | Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, c2012. |
Description: | x, 293 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852) Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9097410 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: The Land of the Dead
- Part I. Before the Famine
- 1. Encounters
- 2. Land and people
- 3. Politics and power
- Part II. That Coming Storm
- 4. Spectre of famine
- 5. Peel's brimstone
- Part III. Into the Abyss
- 6. A starving nation
- 7. The fearful reality
- 8. Property and poverty
- Part IV. Legacies
- 9. Victoria's subjects
- 10. Exiles
- Epilogue: The Death of Martin Collins
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- References
- Index