A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

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Author/Contributor(s): Kinealy, Christine Publisher: Pluto Press Date: 3/20/1997 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shap ed the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants. Show more