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- English
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About this book
"Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it's never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told." â
New York Post
It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth centuryâit claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering.
This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival.
Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.
"Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic." â USA Today
It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth centuryâit claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering.
This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival.
Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.
"Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic." â USA Today
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- One: The Savage Shore: Three Englishmen in Ireland
- Two: The News from Ireland
- Three: âThe Irish Can Live on Anythingâ
- Four: Want
- Five: The Hanging of Bryan Serry
- Six: The Lord of Providence
- Seven: The Great and Glorious Cause of Ireland
- Eight: The Mandate of Heaven
- Nine: A Sermon for Ireland
- Ten: Snow
- Eleven: The Queenâs Speech
- Twelve: Pestilence
- Thirteen: Atonement
- Fourteen: âI Shall Arise and Go Nowâ
- Fifteen: âYankee Doodle Dandyâ
- Sixteen: Catastrophe and Its Consolations
- Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by John Kelly
- About the Author
- Copyright