Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-4648-9
- EAN: 9781441146489
- Produktnummer: 14997019
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.5 cm 636 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 636
Über den Autor
Christine Kinealy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where she earned her doctorate. She is Professor of Irish Studies in the Caspersen Graduate School at Drew University, USA, and, in the spring of 2012, was Visiting Scholar in Residence at Quinnipiac University, USA. She is the author of several books on the Irish Famine, including the award-winning This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 (2006).
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