01882cam a2200325 i 4500 633063470 TxAuBib 20230203120000.0 120327s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250032171 1250032172 TxAuBib rda Kelly, John, 1945- The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people / John Kelly. Great famine and the saga of the Irish people. First edition. New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Co., 2012. xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The savage shore : three Englishmen in Ireland -- The news from Ireland -- "The Irish can live on anything" -- Want -- The hanging of Bryan Serry -- The lord of providence -- The great and glorious cause of Ireland -- The mandate of heaven -- A sermon for Ireland -- Snow -- The queen's speech -- Pestilence -- Atonement -- "I shall arise and go now" -- Yankee doodle dandy -- Catastrophe and its consolations. This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. 20230203. Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852. Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century. Irish Migrations History 19th century. Famines Ireland History 19th century.