The Great Hunger: The Story of the Potato Famine of the 1840s Which Killed One Million Irish Peasants and Sent Hundreds of Thousands to the New World
The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Hundreds of thousands of emigrants sailed for North America in small, ill-equipped, unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to make it alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into cellars, begged, and took whatever jobs they could get. Epidemics, riots and chaos followed in their wake.
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About the Author:
Cecil Blanche Woodman-Smith was a British historian and author of popular history books on the Victorian era, including The Great Hunger, Queen Victoria, The Reason Why, and Thin Men of Hadda. She was appointed CBE in 1960, and received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and the University of St. Andrews. She died in 1977.
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 144176741X
- ISBN 13 9781441767417
- BindingAudio CD
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