Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics 1032098198, 9781032098197

Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-

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Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics
1032098198, 9781032098197

This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history’s most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Fami

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Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to Americ

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The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland from 1845 to 1849 was one of the most catastrophic events in Europe during the

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Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cult

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Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often over

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Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the

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