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Language: en
Pages: 345
Pages: 345
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-01 - Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
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Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-02 - Publisher: A&C Black
Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary ey
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: TV Books
Discusses the potato famine that struck Ireland in 1845, resulting in the starvation deaths of over a million Irish citizens, the displacement of thousands, and
Language: en
Pages: 197
Pages: 197
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-29 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1845, a disas