Ultimate Witnesses. The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning in Famine Ireland, Paperback - Niamh Ann Kelly

The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous he...

This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island off Ireland's Atlantic coast during the nineteenth ...

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The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller!From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past ...

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Tells the absorbing story of post-famine Donegal, the Molly Maguires - a secret society who had set themselves up against the exploitation of the r...

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DescriptionAn illustrated introduction to rites and traditions relating to death, funerary rites and commemoration, from Medieval times to the pres...

Reducere. A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from ...

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