Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers

by Christine Kinealy

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441146482
• ISBN13: 9781441146489
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"