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Author Kinealy, Christine.

Title This great calamity : the Irish famine, 1845-52 / Christine Kinealy.

Publication Info. [Dublin] : Gill & Macmillan ; Boulder, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West, 1995.
©1994

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.5 K57    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.8094 K51T c.2  Check Shelf
Description xxi, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Background: The Rags and Wretched Cabins of Ireland 1845 -- 2. A Blight of Unusual Character 1845-6 -- 3. We Cannot Feed the People 1846-7 -- 4. The Deplorable Consequences of This Great Calamity 1846-7 -- 5. Expedients Well Nigh Exhausted 1847-8 -- 6. Making Property Support Poverty 1848-9 -- 7. The General Advancement of the Country 1849-52 -- 8. Their Sorrowful Pilgrimage: Emigration 1847-55 -- 9. Conclusion 1845-52.
Note "First published in Ireland in 1994 by Gill & Macmillan"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-431) and index.
Subject Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Ireland -- Economic conditions.
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
ISBN 1570980349
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