Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland : the kindness of strangers /
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, an...
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Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |