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Survivors of the Irish Great Hunger, 1845–1850
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Jack O'Keefe PhD
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-15 - Publisher: iUniverse

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In 1801, everything changed for the people of Ireland. Several years after the Act of Union forces Ireland to become the breadbasket for England, blight ravages
How I Survived the Irish Famine
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Laura Wilson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: Turtleback

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In 1847, during the Great Famine, twelve-year-old Mary Flynn keeps a journal of life and death among Ireland's tenant farmers.
Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Thomas Gallagher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown
The Graves Are Walking
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: John Kelly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-21 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed
Black Potatoes
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-29 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1845, a disas