The Great Famine
$54.42
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2018
Summary
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s – the ‘Great Famine’ or ‘An gorta mór’ – is one of the defining events in modern Irish history. Over a five-year period a population of 8.2 million was reduced to 6.5 million through starvation, disease and emigration.
The famine permanently changed one of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom as it then stood and its legacies of depopulation, socio-economic and cultural change, political resentment, and the expansion through mass emigration …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526736635 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1526736632 |
| Author: | John Gibney |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword History |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Irish Perspectives |
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John Gibney
John Gibney is an editor for History Ireland, the leading Irish history magazine publisher based in Dublin. Covering a wide variety of topics from leading experts in their field, ‘Irish Perspectives’ bridges the gap to bring more of Ireland’s rich history to the UK market.
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