A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

by Christine Kinealy

Book Overview

Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745310745
• ISBN13: 9780745310749
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Truth-dealing Kinealy

Kinealy's Death-Dealing Famine is scholarly but accessible. Her data on English exports from Ireland is staggering, put into a context that explains the diastrous effects on the Irish people of English hatred and greed.A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland

Christine Kinealy got it right !

Christine Kinealy got it right. Such truths help to heal and hopefully forgive the English and their government for their bad behavior 150 years ago. Never again.