Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Edited by John Crowley, William I. Smyth, Mike Murphy Tapa dura - 2012

Wrexham: Hughes & Son. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Corners bumped. Mild staining to lower corners of boards. Lacking ffep. 1922. First Edition. Black hardback cloth spine on brown boards with laid on illustration. 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). 30pp. Colour frontis - b/w illustrations. Text entirely in Welsh. .

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished bet

Cork University Press, 2012-08-01. hardcover. Used:Good.

Cork University Press, 2012-08-01. hardcover. Used: Good.

2012. Cork, Ireland, Cork University Press, 2012. 31 cm. XVI, 710 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. The defining publication on the topic. Includes for example the following essays: Ireland before and after the Great Famine / The Story of the Great irish Famine (1845-1852) / The potato: root of the Famine / Baunreagh, County Laois - The failure of the potato Diet in pre-Famine Ireland / The Great Hunger / The longue duree - Britain and colonial Ireland / The colonial dimensions of the Great irish Famine / Quaker Relief efforts / A microgeography of the workhouse system during the Famine / Population decline and social transformation / Mortality and emigration in six parishes in the Union of Skibbereen, West Cork (1846-1847) etc. etc. etc.