Bibliograph

The graves are walking, the great famine and the saga of the Irish people, John Kelly

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The graves are walking, the great famine and the saga of the Irish people, John Kelly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The graves are walking

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

740628637

Responsibility statement

John Kelly

Sub title

the great famine and the saga of the Irish people

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

Table Of 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

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Great famine and the saga of the Irish people

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