Voices Underfoot

by Angela Bourke

While many Irish-Americans identify the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century as the pivotal event in their ethnic history, most people in Ireland knew little about it as its 150th-anniversary approached. The Great Famine continued from 1845 at least until 1852, with lesser, locally devastating, famines occurring at intervals: most notable was the so-called Little Famine of the late 1870s, which led to the formation of the Land League, and then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997837403
• ISBN13: 9780997837407
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.9" x 10.8"