Saving the Irish Poor: Charity and the Great Famine
The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mór) was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately one-quarter of her population through a combination of death and emigration. Yet this tragedy occurred at the heart of the vast...
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Université de Poitiers
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Cahiers du MIMMOC |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mimmoc/1845 |