This Great Calamity by Christine Kinealy
At the heart of this complete, scholarly survey are the unravelling of fact from opinion, the interpretation of motives behind the London government's responses, and the confrontation of stereotypes. This Great Calamity is an exceptional book, now available for the first time in small format.Professor Christine Kinealy is a highly regarded writer and lecturer. In 1984, she earned her Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, writing on the introduction of the Poor Law in Ireland. Kinealy has written extensively about the Great Hunger and its impact, most notably in This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52, and has spoken to both the US Congress and British Parliament on the Famine. In addition to the Great Hunger, her topics include nineteenth-century Ireland, the revolutions of 1848, Daniel O’Connell, Irish-American nationalism, and memory and commemoration in Irish history. Since September 2007, Kinealy has been a tenured professor at Drew University’s Caspersen Graduate School in Madison, NJ. She has written over 16 books on Irish and Irish-American history and numerous scholarly articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780717140114 |
| ISBN 10 | 0717140113 |
| Title | This Great Calamity |
| Author | Christine Kinealy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gill |
| Year published | 2006-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 504 |
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