The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration


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The Irish Potato Famine And Its Effects On Migration

This is microhistory at its best, using a small setting to expand knowledge of bigger events. It is also splendidly written and deserves a wide readership. But it is above all through the exercise of imaginative sympathy that Robert Scally brings these people to ife. There is an incredible amount of material from a wide variety of sources. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.

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Choose your country or region Close. Ebook This title is available as an ebook. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve "On the th anniversary of the Irish Famine, no memorial to the victims could be more fitting or more moving than Robert Scally's spectacular recreation of the life and death of the community of Ballykilcline.

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Fishman, University of London "Robert Scally has penetrated more deeply into the heart of 'hidden Ireland' than any previous scholar, and the result is a lasting and compelling contribution to Irish history and to migration and peasant studies. Miller, University of Missouri "A highly original book whose impressive scholarship makes a significant contribution to understanding nineteenth-century Irish and North American history First of the Small Nations Gerard Keown.

The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration

Gender and the Great War Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. His account will be of particular interest to academicians. Scally does an excellent job of using historical facts to present a better picture of a devistated Ireland. Americans in particular often misunderstand the cause of the chaos usually blamed on the potato blight.

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In reality, the famine was only the "icing on the cake", which Scally explains well. The first half of the book is a very detailed description of Ireland in the days immediately preceeding the famine.

The second half walks us through the once-green hills of a broken Ireland, passing sunken faces and hungry eyes. Scally has been accused of leaving historical fact for emotional imagination.

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I submit the idea that every historian must create something from imagination at some point. Although we can read facts, we must paint the scenes in our minds. This is an excellent book to read if you are already interested in "Black '47" and is also good for the serious reader who cares to explore the Emerald Isle of years ago.

Perhaps those of us who have ties to the isle are more likely to appreciate the suffering that happened there. A relentless, brilliant study.

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Scally digs deep, far beneath the generalities of our assumptions about the Famine. This is not an easy book to read, and not for the faint-hearted. My hair stood on end, and I was deeply grateful for it.

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