The great famine
2018
Book
Total copies: 1
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s - the 'Great Famine' - is one of the defining events in modern Irish history. Over a five-year period a population of 8.2 million was reduced to 6.5 million through starvation, disease and emigration. The famine permanently changed one of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom as it then stood and its legacies of depopulation, socio-economic and cultural change, political resentment, and the expansion through mass emigration of an Irish 'diaspora' in Britain, North America and the British Empire still have a resonance today. Some of the world's leading experts on the Great Famine explore the crisis from a range of perspectives.
Main title:
Work:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
Collation:
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781526736635 (pbk)1526736632 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.5081 GRE941.5081
LC class:
DA950.7
Language:
English
BRN:
330234