The people who lived through the famine are died, but they're stories are sill alive today. Here are just a few book and summaries about them. Tell what happen in that time first hand. To hear about how some people made it through. and how some heros are born.
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The Graves Are Walking is John Kelly's magisterial study of that
societal catastrophe. It reminds us how lucky we remain — and how chaos rides
the winds of bad fortune and worse public policy.
The statistics are staggering: More than a million Irish died from starvation
and disease in the potato famine that began in 1845, while 2 million fled the
country, many of them to die horribly on ships bound for the New World. This was
arguably the 19th century's worst disaster, an event "with something of the
characteristics of a low-level nuclear attack," according to scholar Terry
Eagleton. But its human cost has become a distant abstraction.
Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his
meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and
empathetic. (The book's title comes from a forlornly famine-inspired verse by
William Butler Yeats.) With grim poetic realism, Kelly depicts the walking-dead
hordes of stricken wraiths — racked by hunger, typhus and dysentery — who haunt
the shanties, roads and towns of Ireland, desperate for food, water and even
coffins for the corpses they carry.
societal catastrophe. It reminds us how lucky we remain — and how chaos rides
the winds of bad fortune and worse public policy.
The statistics are staggering: More than a million Irish died from starvation
and disease in the potato famine that began in 1845, while 2 million fled the
country, many of them to die horribly on ships bound for the New World. This was
arguably the 19th century's worst disaster, an event "with something of the
characteristics of a low-level nuclear attack," according to scholar Terry
Eagleton. But its human cost has become a distant abstraction.
Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his
meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and
empathetic. (The book's title comes from a forlornly famine-inspired verse by
William Butler Yeats.) With grim poetic realism, Kelly depicts the walking-dead
hordes of stricken wraiths — racked by hunger, typhus and dysentery — who haunt
the shanties, roads and towns of Ireland, desperate for food, water and even
coffins for the corpses they carry.
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The atlas begins by acknowledging the impossibility of adequately
representing the Great Famine or any major world famine. Yet by exploring a
number of themes from a reconstruction of pre-Famine Ireland onwards to an
exploration of present-day modes of remembering; by the use of over 150 highly
original computer generated parish maps of population decline, social
transformation and other key themes between the census years 1841 and 1851: and
through the use of poetry, contemporary paintings and accounts, illustrations
and modern photography, what this atlas seeks to a achieve is a greater
understanding of the event and its impact and legacy.
This atlas seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands and thousands of
people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits or in fields and ditches,
with little or nothing to remind us of their going. The centrality of the Famine
workhouse as a place of destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the
atlas seeks to represent and understand the conditions and experiences of the
many thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years. Included are
case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York
and Toronto.
A central concern of the atlas is to seek to understand why a famine of this
scale should occur in a nineteenth-century European country, albeit a country
which was subject to imperial rule. In addition, it seeks to reveal in detail
the working-out and varying consequences of the Famine across the island. To
this end, apart from presenting an overall island-wide picture, Famine
experiences and patterns will be presented separately for the four provinces.
These provincial explorations will be accompanied by intimate case studies of
conditions in particular localities across the provinces. The atlas also seeks
to situate the Great Irish Famine in the context of a number of world famines.
To achieve these goals and understandings, the atlas includes contributions from
a wide range of scholars who are experts in their fields – from the arts,
folklore, geography, history, archaeology, Irish and English languages and
literatures.
representing the Great Famine or any major world famine. Yet by exploring a
number of themes from a reconstruction of pre-Famine Ireland onwards to an
exploration of present-day modes of remembering; by the use of over 150 highly
original computer generated parish maps of population decline, social
transformation and other key themes between the census years 1841 and 1851: and
through the use of poetry, contemporary paintings and accounts, illustrations
and modern photography, what this atlas seeks to a achieve is a greater
understanding of the event and its impact and legacy.
This atlas seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands and thousands of
people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits or in fields and ditches,
with little or nothing to remind us of their going. The centrality of the Famine
workhouse as a place of destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the
atlas seeks to represent and understand the conditions and experiences of the
many thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years. Included are
case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York
and Toronto.
A central concern of the atlas is to seek to understand why a famine of this
scale should occur in a nineteenth-century European country, albeit a country
which was subject to imperial rule. In addition, it seeks to reveal in detail
the working-out and varying consequences of the Famine across the island. To
this end, apart from presenting an overall island-wide picture, Famine
experiences and patterns will be presented separately for the four provinces.
These provincial explorations will be accompanied by intimate case studies of
conditions in particular localities across the provinces. The atlas also seeks
to situate the Great Irish Famine in the context of a number of world famines.
To achieve these goals and understandings, the atlas includes contributions from
a wide range of scholars who are experts in their fields – from the arts,
folklore, geography, history, archaeology, Irish and English languages and
literatures.
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Nory Ryan is teenager living in Ireland during the great potato famine mid-19th
century. Her mother (Mam) is deceased; her father (Da) is a sailor working away
from home, and her grandfather (Granda) takes care of the family. The Ryan’s
rent their house and land from an English nobleman. He is in the process of
taking back his properties as people cannot pay their rent. Times are very
tough as the famine has taken food off of everyone’s table resulting in people
fleeing the country. Nory’s oldest sister, Maggie, is one who leaves for
Brooklyn, NY, USA in search of a better life. Maggie promises to get settled
and send for the rest of the family. Celia, Nory’s next oldest sister, leaves
the homestead to find Da. Nory takes care of her younger brother, Patch, and is
a good neighbor to those in need. Granda takes a job away from home in hopes of
earning some money to keep things together until Da returns. Nory is
resourceful and trades what she can for food to keep Patch and herself alive.
An old woman healer, Anna, teaches Nory her ways of using herbs and plants to
heal the ills of neighbors. It is up to Nory to be resourceful to survive. Will
Nory and Patch find Da and Celia? Will Granda return with money? Will the
family ever be together again under one roof. The ending is a surprise.
century. Her mother (Mam) is deceased; her father (Da) is a sailor working away
from home, and her grandfather (Granda) takes care of the family. The Ryan’s
rent their house and land from an English nobleman. He is in the process of
taking back his properties as people cannot pay their rent. Times are very
tough as the famine has taken food off of everyone’s table resulting in people
fleeing the country. Nory’s oldest sister, Maggie, is one who leaves for
Brooklyn, NY, USA in search of a better life. Maggie promises to get settled
and send for the rest of the family. Celia, Nory’s next oldest sister, leaves
the homestead to find Da. Nory takes care of her younger brother, Patch, and is
a good neighbor to those in need. Granda takes a job away from home in hopes of
earning some money to keep things together until Da returns. Nory is
resourceful and trades what she can for food to keep Patch and herself alive.
An old woman healer, Anna, teaches Nory her ways of using herbs and plants to
heal the ills of neighbors. It is up to Nory to be resourceful to survive. Will
Nory and Patch find Da and Celia? Will Granda return with money? Will the
family ever be together again under one roof. The ending is a surprise.