Subjects Lacking Words?: The Gray Zone of the Great Famine

by Mac Suibhne Breandan and Breandan Mac Suibhne

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so reduced that they treated each other with brutal callousness. Husbands abandoned wives and children. Mothers snatched food from the hands of infants. Neighbours stole each other's rations. People even killed for food. And this callousness extended to the dead. Human bodies were dumped in mass graves or left unburied to be ravaged by dogs and pigs, rats, ravens, and gulls. There...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997837470
• ISBN13: 9780997837476
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.7" x 10.7"