Paddy's lament : Ireland 1846-1847 : prelude to hatred
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Paddy's lament : Ireland 1846-1847 : prelude to hatred
(A Harvest/HBJ book)
Harcourt, Brace and company, 1987
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-333) and index
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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.
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