Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays

by Cormac O Grada and Cormac Ó Gráda

These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural disaster, killing about one million people and prompting many hundreds of thousands more to emigrate. The subjects covered here include: trends in living standards before the famine; the impact of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904558577
• ISBN13: 9781904558576
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"