The Great Shame
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: December 3, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9781856197885
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Ireland
Description: In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This text traces the three causes of this depletion: firstly, the famine; secondly the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada; and thirdly the transportations of political activists to Australia.