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Books
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The Irish Coroner: Death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78€45.00
The Irish Coroner offers, for the first time, the social importance of death investigation within local communities, particularly during the Great Famine.
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Dublin and the Great Irish Famine€30.00
Dublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx of the rural poor seeking refuge and relief.
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Irish Famines Before and After the Great Hunger€25.00
The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora.
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The Darkness Echoing : Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and RebellionSpecial Price €9.99 Regular Price €17.99
The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller! From war to revolution, famine to emigration, The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to life.
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The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland€14.99
This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine-ravaged Achill Island during the nineteenth century. The flood of hostility between Edward Nangle and John MacHale exposes the fault-lines of religion, society and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland.
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A Pocket History of the Irish Famine€5.99
This book explains what happened before and during the Famine, with an account of the consequences of this epic tragedy.
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Ultimate Witnesses: The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning in Famine Ireland€14.99
This folio encompasses a cross-section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that tragic period.
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Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger€14.99
Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argue that images can not only give visual pleasure but demand ethical interventions on the part of spectators.