The Graves are Walking A History of the Great Irish Famine
by John Kelly
The Irish famine was one of the worst peacetime disasters ever to strike a European country. Over a million men, women and children starved to death and another million fled the country, forever altering the character of the nation. Beginning in 1845 with the failure of the potato crop, the Famine lasted for six years and was magnified by the blinkered British response to the crisis. In the view of the ruling elite, Ireland was too full of unproductive and backward peasants, so they attempted to use the Famine to reshape Irish society, with disastrous effect. Based on extensive research, The Graves Are Walking captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of Britain's involvement in the Famine's causes and consequences.
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainIreland
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERFaber & Faber
LENGTH397
LANGUAGEEN
Popular historian and science writer, John Kelly is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time and Three on the Edge: The Stories of Ordinary American Families in Search of a Medical Miracle. He has written about medicine, history, and psychology.
The Graves are Walking A History of the Great Irish Famine
by John Kelly
The Irish famine was one of the worst peacetime disasters ever to strike a European country. Over a million men, women and children starved to death and another million fled the country, forever altering the character of the nation. Beginning in 1845 with the failure of the potato crop, the Famine lasted for six years and was magnified by the blinkered British response to the crisis. In the view of the ruling elite, Ireland was too full of unproductive and backward peasants, so they attempted to use the Famine to reshape Irish society, with disastrous effect. Based on extensive research, The Graves Are Walking captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of Britain's involvement in the Famine's causes and consequences.
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainIreland
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERFaber & Faber
LENGTH397
LANGUAGEEN
Popular historian and science writer, John Kelly is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time and Three on the Edge: The Stories of Ordinary American Families in Search of a Medical Miracle. He has written about medicine, history, and psychology.
