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• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Release Date : 20 May 1987

Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the

• Publisher : Lexington Books
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• Release Date : 04 March 2011

Helping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide Rescue explores American foreign policy reactions to genocide and state caused humanitarian crises. This book provides an examination of the nature of genocide and

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 25 November 1991

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 02 June 2011

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 eyewitness accounts and

• Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
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• Release Date : 02 May 2006

The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately

• Publisher : The History Press
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• Release Date : 01 November 2002

In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato

• Publisher : UPNE
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• Release Date : 20 May 1994

An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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• Release Date : 20 May 1988

Argues that there are fundamental social and economic similarities between the two groups; but that taboos against intermarriage, segregated schools and the nature of Protestant and Catholic religious beliefs keep

• Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 2024

The transatlantic world has had immense influence on the direction of world history. The six illuminating studies in Transatlantic History address cultural exchanges and intercontinental developments that contribute to our

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 21 May 2002

Special Sorrows carefully delineates the centrality of Jewish, Polish and Irish supporters in the United States to national liberation movements abroad and details how such movements shaped immigrant life in