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Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-29 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Language: en
Pages: 98
Pages: 98
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. C
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-01 - Publisher: The History Press
In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food.
Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europ