Irish Famine
The Little Ice Age
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This study of how history--including, for example, the Irish potato famine--was affected by climate and weather focuses on the little Ice Age, the period from the 14th through the 19th centuries. Fagan closes with a chapter on global warming and th...
Away
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This is the saga of an Irish family who face the hardships of famine, emigration, and political turmoil with an enduring spiritualist faith. In 1830's Ireland Mary is a young woman who's life is changed when a fairy sailor dies in her arms. Althou...
Still Waters in Niger
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This very autobiographical novel is about an Irish-American woman who returns to the African country she lived in long ago. She visits her grown daughter, who works at a clinic that tries to alleviate the effects of the famine that plagues the are...
Black Potatoes
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A study of the Irish Potato Famine--a blight that destroyed the primary food source of nearly six million people. Over the course of the five years that the potato blight ravaged Ireland, one million people died, two million others fled Ireland an...
Black Potatoes
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A study of the Irish Potato Famine--a blight that destroyed the primary food source of nearly six million people. Over the course of the five years that the potato blight ravaged Ireland, one million people died, two million others fled Ireland an...
Against Love Poetry
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Ireland`s economic and social history and Boland`s personal history overlap in this feminist volume in which the Irish Potato Famine and Boland`s romantic life are explored. A New York Times Notable Book, 2001. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005.