The graves are walking
Subtitle: the great famine and the saga of the Irish people
By: John Kelly
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780805091847
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Migrations; Famines; History
Other titles: Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland; title: The news from Ireland; title: "The Irish can live on anything"; title: Want; title: The hanging of Bryan Serry; title: The lord of providence; title: The great and glorious cause of Ireland; title: The mandate of heaven; title: A sermon for Ireland; title: Snow; title: The queen's speech; title: Pestilence; title: Atonement; title: "I shall arise and go now"; title: Yankee doodle dandy; title: Catastrophe and its consolations.