POVERTY IN IRELAND 1837
Szegénység Irlandban
In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to cover themselves. They went hungry for two months of the year, and half-naked for all the year. Yet this would be their last 'good' decade before more than a million of them would vanish into unmarked graves in the 1840s. The idealistic young Baron Eötvös - a humanitarian and already a much-praised poet - struggled to understand how Ireland could have been reduced to this state und…
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Weitere Autoren: Jones, Sheila (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-908420-20-6
- EAN: 9781908420206
- Produktnummer: 18136042
- Verlag: Phaeton Publishing Limited
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 222 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.6 cm 448 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 448
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