Feed the Children First: Irish Memories of the Great Hunger

by Mary E. Lyons

Book Overview

The great Irish potato famine -- the Great Hunger -- was one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century. Within seven years of the onset of a fungus that wiped out Ireland's staple potato crop, more than a quarter of the country's eight million people had either starved to death, died of disease, or emigrated to other lands. Photographs have documented the horrors of other cataclysmic times in history -- slavery and the Holocaust -- but there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689842260
• ISBN13: 9780689842269
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8