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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.24
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Manufacturer: Wolfhound Press (IE)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James J. Mangan
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Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2004-03
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: 1847... Gerard Keegan, a schoolteacher, and his young bride left County Sligo to travel aboard the now infamous coffin ships to Canada. In his diary Gerard Keegan charts the reality of famine and emigration--relatives seeking his advice, the walk from Sligo to Dublin, fever on board the ship, a fight with the first mate, a catch of fish, storms, sighting whales, the passengers' first sight of land--and the bittersweet fate of those who survived to reach the promised New World.
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Price: $37.07
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Sale: $30.26
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Manufacturer: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Edward F. Dolan
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Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5081
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Publication Date: 2002-12
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Reading Level: 109
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Discusses the potato famine that devastated Ireland in the nineteenth century and led to a widespread immigration to the United States.
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $10.05
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Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Duncan Crosbie
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Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Edition: Pop
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5081
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Publication Date: 2006-09-22
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Reading Level: 24
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: Here, in words and pictures—including imaginative pop-up illustrations—is the story of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and the resulting hardship that caused widespread death and eventual emigration of thousands of Irish from their homeland. Seeking a better life, those who could make the journey fled to America, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. This book’s imaginative use of paper engineering shows household interiors in an Irish country village, a typical sailing ship that carried Irish from their homeland, and other fascinating details that illustrate nineteenth-century Irish life. The story is told from the point of view of Michael O’Connor, a nine-year-old boy who, with his family, endures many hardships before arriving in America. This volume is designed in a form to suggest Michael’s scrapbook. It’s filled with facts and true-to-life details of the O’Connor family’s journey on the famine ship Dunbrody. A feature at the end of the book gives brief biographical sketches of many famous Americans of Irish background. Color illustrations on every page.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $16.96
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Manufacturer: Pluto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christine Kinealy::Gerard Mac Atasney
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Publisher: Pluto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.67081
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Publication Date: 2000-11-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Between 1845 and 1852 Ireland was devastated by the "Great Hunger" - the most severe famine in modern European history. The view widely-held by many historians is that the impact of the famine on the northern province of Ulster, in particular the largely Protestant city of Belfast, was minimal. In the first book on the Famine to focus specifically on Belfast, Christine Kinealy, one of Ireland's leading historians of the period, and Gerard MacAtasney, challenge this revisionist view. Drawing on a wealth of original research, the authors begin with an examination of society and social behaviour in Belfast prior to 1845. They then assess the official response to the crisis by the British government, the response by the Church in both England and Ireland, and the part played by the local administration in Ulster. The authors examine the impact of the cholera epidemic on Belfast in 1849/50, the city's recovery after the Famine, and the beginnings of open sectarianism among the business and landed classes of the province.
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Price: $22.99
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cormac Ó'Gráda
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.508
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Publication Date: 1995-10-27
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century. Cormac Ó Gráda's concise survey puts the Famine in the context of the Irish economy, assesses the Famine itself, and discusses its many consequences. Despite a devastating food shortage, the huge death toll of one million was hardly inevitable; a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief could perhaps have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Laura Wilson
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Publication Date: 2001-01
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Reading Level: 36
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: The tragedy of the famine, seen through one girl's eyes During the terrible years of the "great hunger," thousands of Irishpeople faced death from starvation and disease. The faminebegan in 1845, and by 1850, a million people had died and afurther one and a half million had fled the country, manyjourneying across the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing shipsto make new lives in America. Told in the voice of twelve-year-old Mary O'Flynn, this is the storyof the courage and determination with which one family survivedthis appalling ordeal. Uniquely illustrated with authenticphotographs of landscapes, interiors, and genuine period artifacts,Mary's quiet, brave voice tells us what it was like to livethrough the greatest tragedy in Ireland's history.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $16.90
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Manufacturer: Lilliput Pr Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Asenath Nicholson
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Publisher: Lilliput Pr Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5081092
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Publication Date: 1998-11-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $25.50
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Manufacturer: Univ College Dublin Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Mitchel
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Publisher: Univ College Dublin Pr
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Edition: Facsimile of 1861 ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5081
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Publication Date: 2006-03-13
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Reading Level: 251
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Description: John Mitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising in Ireland, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper, The Southern Citizen.
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Price: $120.00
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Sale: $85.42
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Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Leslie A. Williams
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Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5081092
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Publication Date: 2003-10
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Reading Level: 402
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Description: Through an investigation of the reportage in 19th-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question "Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to 'killing remarks', rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?". The book explores the reportage of events and people in Ireland, focusing first on Daniel O'Connell and then on debates about the seriousness of the famine. Drawing upon such journals as "The Times", "The Observer", "The Morning Chronicle", "The Scotsman", the "Manchester Guardian", the "Illustrated London News", and "Punch", Williams suggests how this reportage may have brought about Britain's response to Ireland's tragedy. Continuing her survey of the press after the death of O'Connell, Leslie Williams demonstrates how the editors, writers and cartoonists who reported and commented on the growing crisis in peripheral Ireland drew upon a metropolitan mentality. In doing so, the press engaged in what Edward Said identifies as "exteriority", whereby reporters, cartoonists and illustrators, basing their viewpoints on their very status as outsiders, reflected the interests of metropolitan readers. Williams argues that the biases in language and the presentation of information proved dangerous. She illustrates how David Spurr's categories or tropes of invalidation, debasement and negation are frequently exhibited in the reports, editorials and cartoons. However, drawing upon the communications theories of Gregory Bateson, Williams concludes that the real "subject" of the British Press commentary on Ireland was Britain itself. Ireland was used as a negative mirror to reinforce Britain's own commitment to capitalist, industrial values at a time of great internal stress.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Terry Eagleton
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5
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Publication Date: 1995-05
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Reading Level: 355
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