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A Death-Dealing Famine : The Great Hunger in Ireland, Paperback / softback Book

A Death-Dealing Famine : The Great Hunger in Ireland Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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