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Author : Robert Whyte
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary by : Robert Whyte
Download or read book Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary written by Robert Whyte. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly amazing story of courage born of desperation, starvation, poverty and the will to survive.
Author : James Mangan
Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Robert Whyte's Famine Ship Diary 1847 by : James Mangan
Download or read book Robert Whyte's Famine Ship Diary 1847 written by James Mangan. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voyage of the 'coffin ship' Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Île, the Canadian quarantine station as described in the contemporary diary of one of the passengers, Robert Whyte. Whyte was a Protestant gentleman of education and position, as well as being a professional writer who intended to publish his diary. The diary appeared in 1848. It is signed in the author's own handwriting and features vivid descriptions of the spectacular scenery along the way and the striking delineations of the passengers, the crew and the suffering travellers.
Author : Dennis Brindell Fradin
Release : 2012-01-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 94X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Irish Potato Famine by : Dennis Brindell Fradin
Download or read book The Irish Potato Famine written by Dennis Brindell Fradin. This book was released on 2012-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive information on the history leading up to the Irish potato famine, presents accounts of narrow escapes, and discusses the legacy of the event.
Author : Kathryn Miles
Release : 2014-01-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 157/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis All Standing by : Kathryn Miles
Download or read book All Standing written by Kathryn Miles. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling, true tale of a celebrated “coffin ship” that ran between Ireland and America in the 1840s: “By turns harrowing and heartwarming…All Standing salvages the treasure of a history lost at sea” (J.C. Hallman, author of The Devil Is a Gentleman). More than one million immigrants fled the Irish famine for North America—and more than one hundred thousand of them perished aboard the “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic. But one small ship never lost a passenger. All Standing recounts the remarkable tale of the Jeanie Johnston and her ingenious crew, whose eleven voyages are the stuff of legend. Why did these individuals succeed while so many others failed? And what new lives in America were the ship’s passengers seeking? In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, acclaimed author Kathryn Miles re-creates life aboard this amazing vessel, richly depicting the bravery and defiance of its shipwright, captain, and doctor—and one Irish family’s search for the American dream.
Author : Christine Kinealy
Release : 2020-06-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 889/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The History of the Irish Famine by : Christine Kinealy
Download or read book The History of the Irish Famine written by Christine Kinealy. This book was released on 2020-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. The narratives of those who perished, those who survived and those who emigrated form an integral part of this history and these volumes will make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled – Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes will provide a fresh way of understanding Irish history in general, and famine and migration in particular. Comprehensive editorial apparatus and annotation of the original texts are included along with bibliographies, appendices, chronologies and indexes that point the way for further study.
