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098126	The Irish Famine by Peter Gray. Paperback, 190 pages, illustrated. Full color illustrations accompany an informative text that examines the impact of single-crop dependency, the role of the British government and the effect on nations, particularly the US, that received waves of immigrants.	$12.95
098127	The Great Irish Famine edited by Cathal Poireir. Paper, 288 pages. This broad ranging series of essays was broadcast on Irish radio as part of the Thomas Davis Lecture Series. Leading historians, economists, and geographers from Ireland, Britain and the United States offer research from a wide spectrum of disciplines such as medicine, folklore and literature. Topics include landscape change, food, fever, the role of the poor law, famine relief, eviction, folk memory, the Famine in literature and the famines of today.	$19.95
098122	The Great Famine: Ireland's Potato Famine, 1845-1851 by John Percival. Hardcover, 192 pages, indexed. Written in conjunction with a television series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the famine, this book paints a realistic picture of the background of the day: the feudal structure of the country with its many estates owned by Anglo-Irish landlords whose tenants and small holders struggled to survive, Catholic and Anglican priests quarreling over details of dogma while the poor starved around them, press reports of the suffering in the face of which the governor and people of England showed a massive lack of concern. The book serves as an excellent primer and is richly illustrated with photographs, drawings and cartoons of the day.	$24.95
098125	This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 by Dr. Christine Kinealy. Hardcover, 472 pages. Thoroughly exploring the famine's complex backdrop of economic, social, political and cultural factors and the famine's vivid legacy in the modern world, this new assessment sheds brilliant new light on a pivotal event in Irish history.	$24.95
098120	The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accounts, 1841-1851 by John Killen. Paper, 288 pages, 60 illustrations. Unique in its presentation of the information and commentary that was available to the public and decisions makers at the time, here are newspaper reports and editorials, accounts by relief agencies, government reports, parliamentary debates, scientific comment and agricultural advice - all showing a situation rapidly running beyond control as the potato blight spread with catastrophic results.	$22.00

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