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Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Sean Patrick Hopkins offers exactly the kind of narration this audiobook deserves...He makes this story of America's first significant overseas aid effort and the two people most responsible—a sea captain and a Catholic priest—come alive." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
vi, 250 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them the child Henry Ford and the twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy. Edward Laxton conducted five years of research...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of the Great Irish Famine, through the eyes and memories of the Irish people. Tells how they lived, why their lives depended on the potato, how they dreaded the workhouse, and how they feared and defied the landlord who collected the rent and evicted them.
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