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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Great Irish Famine"”.
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Global Networks of Relief and the Great Irish Famine
… networks of relief that were active during the Great Irish Famine. In particular, it analyses networks facilitated by the British Empire, global Catholicism, the Irish diaspora, and transnational activist groups. In so doing, it traces the social and economic factors that facilitated an …
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Quarantining the past : commemorating the Great Irish Famine on Grosse-Île
… and summer of 1847, the deadliest year of the Great Famine (1845-50), 100 000, predominantly Catholic, Irish made their way to the island aboard 'coffin ships'. Their already weakened state worsened by the inhumane crossing, some succumbed to typhus en route, others while in quarantine. Despite …
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Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Darker
… Keira’s life and love and loss at the end of the Great Irish Famine. The two women both struggle with their husbands, having made a fatal flaw in judgement. All the while, the absinthe flows, creating darkness in the hearts of those who imbibe. </p>
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An isotopic and historical study of diet and migration during the great Irish Potato famine (1845-1852). High-resolution carbon and nitrogen isotope profiling of teeth to investigate migration and short-term dietary change at the Union workhouse, Kilkenny and Lukin street, London.
… from contemporary documents established that Irish migrants to London during the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) were likely to come from low socio-economic groups in south-west Ireland, and has characterised mid-19th-century health status and living conditions in both locations. Using samples …
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A gift of stone
… commentary written in response to a key event in Irish history, the Great Irish Famine. The novel for this practice-based PhD in Creative Writing imagines two lives – that of a young Irishwoman and her family caught up in the Famine in the 1840s and a contemporary Canadian woman who returns to …