The Great Hunger: Ireland
Subtitle: 1845-1849
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: September 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780140145151
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Economic history; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Famines; History - General History; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; History / Ireland; 19th century; Emigration and immigration; History
First sentence: AT THE beginning of the year 1845 the state of Ireland was, as it had been for nearly seven hundred years, a source of grave anxiety to England.