Ireland - History - Famine
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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The Irish Famine: A Documentary
$17.95 Read moreA superbly pithy account of the controversies surrounding the failure of Ireland’s potato crop from 1845-1848.
- Author: Ferriter, Diarmaid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1861974604
- Language: English
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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission
$20.00 Add to cart” A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surel
- Author: Puleo, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 125079711X
- Language: English
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
$10.99 Read more2002 Sibert Medal Winner
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six milli- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0618548831
- Language: English
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Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the h… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Studies
- Author: Howe, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1611863694
- Language: English
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Nory Ryan’s Song
$7.99 Add to cartNory Ryan’s family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory’s father goes away on a fishin… [more below]
- Series: Nory Ryan #1
- Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0440418291
- Language: English
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
$7.99 Add to cartOne of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children’s literature.
Marita Conlon-McKenna’s Children of the Famine series brings to life as never before the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and th
- Series: Children of the Famine #01
- Author: Conlon-McKenna, Marita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402219067
- Language: English
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Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “ri… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 031656480X
- Language: English
