Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers by Christine Kinealy

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers

Christine Kinealy

424 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such...

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