A Death-Dealing Famine

ebook The Great Hunger in Ireland

By Christine Kinealy

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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.
A Death-Dealing Famine