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100 1  Coogan, Tim Pat,|d1935- 
245 14 The famine plot :|bEngland's role in Ireland's greatest 
       tragedy /|cTim Pat Coogan. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2012. 
300    xi, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-270) and 
       index. 
505 0  Setting the scene -- Born to filth -- A million deaths of 
       no use -- Five actors and the orchards of hell -- Meal use
       -- Evictions -- The work schemes -- The workhouse -- Soup 
       and souperism -- The Poor Law cometh -- Landlords targeted
       -- Emigration : escape by coffin ship -- The Propaganda of
       famine. 
520    "A bold new history of the great famine that holds the 
       British government accountable"--Jacket. 
520    "During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the 
       nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster
       a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens 
       either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many
       dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to
       America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping 
       narrative, Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan,
       gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the 
       darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain 
       was in large part responsible for the extent of the 
       national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage
       in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So 
       strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the 
       English parliament referred to the famine as 'God's 
       lesson.' Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with 
       the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers 
       fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its 
       unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the 
       "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the 
       Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had 
       lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a 
       broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the 
       nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish 
       diaspora of nearly 80 million people today." -- Publisher 
       description 
650  0 Famines|zIreland|xHistory|y19th century|xHistoriography. 
651  0 Ireland|xHistory|yFamine, 1845-1852|xHistoriography. 
651  0 Ireland|xSocial conditions|y19th century. 
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