This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845 - 52 by Christine Kinealy

This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845 - 52

Christine Kinealy

450 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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The Irish famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland and the last great sustenance crises in European history. In a country of eight million people, it caused the deaths of one million and the forced emigration ...

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