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Author Kelly, John, 1945-

Title The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.5081 K297    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  941.5081 KELLY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  941.5081 KEL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  941.508 KEL    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  941.5081 KELLY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.5081 KELLY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  941.5081 KELLY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  941.5081 KEL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  941.5 K29    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  941.5081 KELLY    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-376) and index.
Contents The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland -- The news from Ireland -- "The Irish can live on anything" -- Want -- The hanging of Bryan Serry -- The lord of providence -- The great and glorious cause of Ireland -- The mandate of heaven -- A sermon for Ireland -- Snow -- The Queen's speech -- Pestilence -- Atonement -- "I shall arise and go now" -- "Yankee doodle dandy" -- Catastrophe and its consolations.
Summary This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
Subject Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
Irish -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century.
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Added Title Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
ISBN 9780805091847: $32.00
080509184X
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