TITLE:
The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly.
Alternate Title:
Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Co.,
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
xii, 397 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780805091847
