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- catalog abstract "The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation; emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. Most emigrant ships were small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary, and often unseaworthy. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into dark, dirty cellars; begged in the streets; and took whatever employment they could get at wages which no American would accept. Epidemics, riots and chaos followed in their wake, so that Irish immigrants came to be regarded as a danger to the health of the community and a burden on society. The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity; yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity anddespite all oddsa hardly supportable optimism.".
- catalog contributor b3518134.
- catalog coverage "Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Ireland Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852.".
- catalog coverage "Ireland".
- catalog created "c1962.".
- catalog date "1962".
- catalog date "c1962.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1962.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation; emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. Most emigrant ships were small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary, and often unseaworthy. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into dark, dirty cellars; begged in the streets; and took whatever employment they could get at wages which no American would accept. Epidemics, riots and chaos followed in their wake, so that Irish immigrants came to be regarded as a danger to the health of the community and a burden on society. The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity; yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity anddespite all oddsa hardly supportable optimism.".
- catalog extent "510 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Great hunger: Ireland 1845-1849.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Great hunger: Ireland 1845-1849.".
- catalog issued "1962".
- catalog issued "c1962.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harper & Row".
- catalog relation "Great hunger: Ireland 1845-1849.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852.".
- catalog spatial "Ireland".
- catalog spatial "Ireland.".
- catalog subject "338.15".
- catalog subject "DA950.7 .W6 1962a".
- catalog subject "Emigration and Immigration.".
- catalog subject "Famines Ireland History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Famines Ireland.".
- catalog subject "History".
- catalog subject "Starvation".
- catalog title "The great hunger : Ireland 1845-1849 / by Cecil Woodham-Smith.".
- catalog type "text".