A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745310749)

Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.

Author: Christine Kinealy
ISBN-10: 0745310745
ISBN-13: 9780745310749
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 03/20/1997
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.27w x 0.72d

About the Author
Dr Christine Kinealy teaches history at the University of Central Lancashire and has also taught at the University of Liverpool and universities in Dublin and Belfast. She is the author of The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Roberts Reinhart, 1994) and has written for History Ireland and the New York-based Irish Echo.